Space Technology

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Where space begins
• Milestones in space travel
• Why we explore space

🎬 Animated demo

Ride a rocket up through the sky until the air runs out.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Space timeline
• Why explore space? debate

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Action and reaction
• Fuel, thrust and stages
• Launch pads

🎬 Animated demo

Watch a rocket drop its stages as it climbs.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Balloon rocket
• Water-bottle rocket (with an adult)

🎯 What you’ll learn

• What gravity does
• Falling around the Earth
• Low and high orbits

🎬 Animated demo

Throw a ball faster and faster until it orbits the Earth.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• String-and-ball orbit demo
• Orbit height chart

🎯 What you’ll learn

• GPS, weather and TV satellites
• How satellites send data
• Satellite parts

🎬 Animated demo

Satellites circle Earth and beam signals to phones and TVs.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Satellite model
• Satellite uses poster

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan and Aditya-L1
• Low-cost smart engineering
• Indian space scientists

🎬 Animated demo

Travel along ISRO’s missions from the Moon to the Sun.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• ISRO mission fact cards
• Scientist profile

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Orbiters, landers and rovers
• Landing softly on the Moon
• Chandrayaan-3 near the south pole

🎬 Animated demo

A lander slows down and touches the Moon gently.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Egg-drop soft landing challenge
• Moon rover model

🎯 What you’ll learn

• The long trip to Mars
• Rovers and helicopters on Mars
• Exploring other planets

🎬 Animated demo

A spacecraft travels the curved path from Earth to Mars.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Mars colony design
• Planet facts game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Floating in microgravity
• Food, water and sleep in space
• Experiments in orbit

🎬 Animated demo

Astronauts float, eat and sleep aboard the space station.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Space food menu
• Astronaut daily schedule

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Why space is dangerous
• What a space suit does
• Staying safe on spacewalks

🎬 Animated demo

Layer by layer, a space suit protects an astronaut.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Design a space suit
• Survival kit list

🎯 What you’ll learn

• How telescopes collect light
• Space telescopes
• Stars, planets and galaxies

🎬 Animated demo

Zoom from the Moon to faraway galaxies.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Make a simple telescope
• Night-sky observation log

🎯 What you’ll learn

• The Sun’s energy and storms
• Auroras
• Protecting satellites

🎬 Animated demo

A solar storm streams toward Earth and makes auroras.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Sun-safe observation (with filters)
• Space weather report

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Pick a goal
• Choose rocket, orbit and payload
• Present your mission

🎬 Animated demo

Your mission plan launches from idea to orbit.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Satellite for your city
• Moon base mission (final project)