Anytime I hear that someone’s mounting an automated lazer system to zap things out of the sky I always get a little worried.  The thought occurs, wrong though it may be, that an automated system fast enough to blast out things flying at the planes could either:
A) Be tampered with to blast the actual plane
or
B) […]

Any time something weighing 2,000kg gets boosted into orbit it’s something of a spectacle. The fact that any of the rockets sent into space work is something I’ve always found astonishing. It’s a testament to good failover and cutout design, as there’s a vast array of things that can fail.
India seems to be […]