AstroBytes

"It's not rocket science, but it actually is." - ThrustMIT From the first rocket launch by Robert Goddard to SpaceX's automated rockets, Mankind has come a long way in developing a means of reaching the cosmos, and passionate engineers and rocket scientists are responsible for making this possible. One such team of eager rocket scientists is Manipal's ThrustMIT. Join us as hosts Athar and Tanay talk to Raeid, Ronan and Imaad about rockets and how they develop ingenious rockets in their workshop.

A life-sized metal bot, on an expedition, to survey the red land spanning over millions of kilometres, decoding the enigmatic occurrence. It is the effect of the Humans' intellect and one can't wait to see the fascination it creates with the technology it has. What can we call it? One sole representative of eight billion lives on another planet? An investigator unravelling the secrets? A Rover? Join your hosts Athar and Tanay, as they meet Aditya and Arjun from Mars Rover Manipal. Catch a sneak peek into their journey of designing a rover from scratch and representing their team at different International forums.

High above our heads, and spiralling across it in an intricate alignment, lies a digital beehive, collecting clusters of information through the cosmic web. What do these mechanised "bees" look like? An intricate mesh covering this gigantic geoid? Or simplified integrated circuits with info-streams coursing through their structures? It was mankind's dream to unravel the mysteries of what lies beyond the sky dome until one day that dream became reality with the invention of the Satellite. Join us as we venture into the world of this engineering marvel with Hosts Athar and Aarushi in conversation with Nidhi and Shishir from MIT's student satellite team Parikshit!

Is Astronaut's ice cream real? how do medicines work all the way up there in space? Can we colonise and terraform Mars? All these questions and more will be answered in a panel discussion where Athar, Aditya and Avani speak with Suhani and Renuka from MBM in a lively discussion about Syn-bio in space, in the first episode of a short series. We present to you: Cosmic TechTalks - MBM.

Arriving perfectly in time for Diwali is your host Athar, kicking off season 3 of Astrobytes with his first episode: Supernova - the big firecrackers of the universe. What happens to a star after it reaches the end of its life? does it explode and just die? If so, how big and bright is the explosion? How many have we seen so far? To know more about this extraordinary phenomenon, tune in to Astrobytes' newest episode where the host deals with the above questions and talks about historic and epic supernovae spanning the last 2000 years of human history. (the explosions in the background are snippets of Diwali celebrations.)