SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -It depends on the size of the rocket. If the rocket & payload (including fuel) weighs more than 3.3 lbs, you will need a waiver from the FAA to launch the rocket. If the rocket has more than 125 grams of fuel, you will need a waiver from the FAA to launch the rocket.

Detailed explanation-2: -Antrix is the commercial arm of the ISRO. If a foreign entity wishes to launch out of India, they have to form a contract with Antrix in order to obtain launch services. Contracts with Antrix form the launch agreement. The details of such contracts are only available to the involved parties.

Detailed explanation-3: -We launch things into space by putting them on rockets with enough fuel-called propellant-to boost them above most of Earth’s atmosphere. Once a rocket reaches the right distance from Earth, it releases the satellite or spacecraft.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yes. It would require a rather larger rocket though, there would be an (approximately) 2000mph penalty for launching westward. A number of satellites in polar orbits are actually slightly retrograde, which means that they’re actually traveling a bit westward (although mainly north and south).

Detailed explanation-5: -Earth is a satellite because it moves around the sun. The moon is a satellite because it moves around Earth. Earth and the moon are called “natural” satellites.

Detailed explanation-6: -Most of the 300kg satellite should burn up as it hurtles through the upper atmosphere, but some parts are expected to fall to Earth. The space agency said in a statement the risk of anyone on the surface being harmed by plunging satellite pieces is “low”-about one in 2, 467.