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Industrial designer Kevin O’Doherty has designed few outstanding telescopes with handy features and superb appearances.

All of these Sophistikids Telescopes have a marvelous color combination and the edgy design has made the telescopes great pieces. Most of the telescopes have the rotating feature which will allow a viewer to surf the planet from every possible angle.

The science tech branded telescope includes a dummy space beneath the telescope so that you can get an overview of the space from it without pointing your telescope towards the space. If this project comes true, both the professionals and fun space viewers will appreciate these products.

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India’s first student-made satellite will take off from Sriharikota either on April 5 or 6, riding piggyback on ISRO’s Risat satellite until it separates and flies into its own designated orbit.

Called Anusat, the micro-student satellite will be launched by the four-stage PSLV. It has been designed and developed by 37 aerospace engineering students with the help of 10 of their teachers of the prestigious Madras Institute Of Technology, the alma mater of former President and rocket scientist A P J Abdul Kalam.

“This is the first time we are launching a satellite made by students and the idea is to motivate the younger generation to work for India’s space missions,” ISRO’s chief spokesperson S Satish said.

Madras Institute of Technology’s R Dhanraj told TOI that the satellite will operate in the low earth orbit at an altitude between 600 and 800 km. It is equipped with a “store and forward” payload and the data will be received both at the Chennai tech university as well as Pune University. The satellite will mainly be used for amateur communication purposes, providing students with a hands-on experience about space sciences and technology.

ISRO officials said the agency has been promoting the development of micro-satellites at universities to familiarise students in critical areas like structures, thermal management, controls, guidance, power systems, command and data handling and communications.

Chennai’s Anna University, of which the Madras Institute of Technology is an affiliate, was the first institution in India to seriously take up ISRO’s offer to design and develop a micro-satellite. IIT-Mumbai and IIT-Kanpur are also in the process of designing and developing micro-satellites.

The Anusat programme, initiated in 2002, is the brainchild of R Vasagam, former vice-chancellor of Anna University. Vasagam was previously the director of ISRO’s Apple satellite project.

The Second Solar Spaceship, designed by Different Futures, placed in the German city of Boblingen is the most elaborate children’s toy. The spaceship as the name suggest is the replica of any regular spaceship minus the ability to fly.
This three level toy is interactive spaceship also has a 3-D cinema, a laboratory and even an alien breeding ground!
The concept has jet engines and the circular docking pods are used for connecting to orbiting stations.

Solar Space Ship

This toy is a nice means of educating the kids as to how a real space ship works so that they are more knowledgeable.

Igarashi Design has introduced a single seat chopper helicopter with amazing looks. It is equipped with everything that is required to give the private flight a higher reliability.

But you need to take pilot training before flying your own helicopter because only one person can sit and operate this chopper helicopter. The design looks like a robot if you see the front right look. It is very small in size as compared to other chopper helicopters. So, get ready to take the risk and enjoy your flight.

Chopper Helicopter

NASA’s latest concept vehicle is meant to go way, way off-road — as in 240,000 miles from the nearest pavement, driving on the moon. NASA is working to send astronauts to the moon by 2020 to set up a lunar outpost, where they will do scientific research and prepare for journeys to destinations like Mars.

NASA is testing many technologies needed for research on the moon. Two examples are a lunar truck for astronauts and a rover equipped with a drill designed to dig into the moon’s soil.

Nasa's Robot on Space

The concept for a future lunar truck was built at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston. The vehicle provides an idea of what the transportation possibilities may be when astronauts start exploring the moon. Other than a few basic requirements, the primary instruction given to the designers was to throw away assumptions made on NASA’s previous rovers and come up with new ideas.

“To be honest with you, it was scary when we started,” said Lucien Junkin, a Johnson robotics engineer and the design lead for the prototype rover. “They tasked us last October to build the next generation rover and challenge the conventional wisdom. The idea is that, in the future, NASA can put this side-by-side with alternate designs and start to pick their features.”

One of the first standards to go was the traditional expectation that a vehicle should have four wheels. Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, still cruising around the Red Planet, have already proved the value of a couple of extra wheels. When one of the six wheels became inoperable, the rovers had no problem rolling on the remaining five.

With the number of wheels decided, the next question was just how those wheels should turn. On a car, the front wheels turn a few inches in either direction, and both wheels point in the same direction. On this rover, all six wheels can pivot individually in any direction, regardless of where any other wheel points. To parallel park, a driver could pull up next to the parking place, turn all the wheels to the right and slide right in.

Of course, astronauts will not have trouble finding a parking space on the moon. But the feature, called crab steering, has advantages for a vehicle designed to drive into the craters of the moon. If a slope is too steep to drive down safely, the vehicle could drive sideways instead — no backing up or three-point turns required. The all-wheels, all-ways steering also could come in handy when unloading and docking payloads or plugging into a habitat for recharging.

Introducing crab steering drove the concept in a few other ways. If the rover’s wheels turn to drive in a different direction, the driver needs to be able to do the same. The driver stands at the steering mechanism because sitting in a spacesuit is not comfortable or practical. The astronaut’s perch — steering mechanism, driver and all — can pivot 360 degrees.

“The Apollo astronauts couldn’t back up at all because they couldn’t see where they were going in reverse,” said Rob Ambrose, assistant chief of the Automation, Robotics and Simulation Division at Johnson. “If you have a payload on the back or are plugging into something, it could be really important to keep your eyes directly on it.”

The vehicle also can be the ultimate lowrider. It can lower its belly to the ground, making it easier for astronauts in spacesuits to climb on and off. Individual wheels or sections can be raised and lowered to keep the vehicle level when driving on uneven ground.

Some, all or none of these features may be selected to be in the design of a rover that eventually goes to the moon. NASA’s lunar architects currently envision pressurized rovers that would travel in pairs, two astronauts in each rover. The new prototype vehicle is meant to provide ideas as those future designs are developed.

“This rover concept changed the whole paradigm,” said Diane Hope, program element manager for NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., which sponsored the vehicle’s development. “It’s not something I would have expected. It provides an alternative approach.”