The Ideology Of A Rocket

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Satellite is a man-made probe that orbits the earth, satellite come in a variety of forms and usages including Television, Telephones, Navigations Business & Finance, weather, Climate and environmental monitoring, safety, land stewardship, development and space science. They affects people’s life though out the world, even without us knowing it.
The ideology of rocketry was thought of in World War II, it begin with the German 7.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40 (light gun 40) used by the German Airborne troopers to take out bunkers and light armoured vehicles. This idea was eventually adopted by American’s Recoilless rifle. Bazooka was made lighter, easier to carry and it could fire HEAT rockets (High Explosive Anti-Tank) however
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The development of the idea “WunderWaffe” (Wonder Weapon), as a ditch to win the war. In 1936, one of many projects proposed to Adult Hitler was the V series (Vergeltungswaffe) by Dr. Wherner Von Braun later on the head designer for the V1 and the V2 rocket designed to crash and explode without waring in targeted cities. V2 was intended to reverse the course of war. The rocket was intended to be a political and a terror weapon against civilians population centre such as London, and applying pressure to casualties’ sensitive nation on Western allies. The benefit of the V weapons was to divert resources and cause terror both fulfilled their roles V1 Flying bomb prevented the effective deployment of the Gloster Meteor , the first British jet fighter and the allies only operational jet aircraft during the second world war 2 and V2 an unstoppable ballistic missile raining down causing random destruction. Both weapons created psychological result and millions of dollars in material damage. It is estimated that several thousand people were killed by the missile. But many more as 20,000 people died while constructing the missile. Even though V-2 missile failed to turn the tide of the war, nearing the final stage of the war, Dr. Wherner Von Braun chooses to surrender himself to United State due to apron hearing Soviet Union the mistreatment Prisoner of War (POW). United State and the Soviet Union took interest in the V-2 Rocket. Both …show more content…
Types of satellites that are most used by the public are communication type satellite, most means of communication that the public would currently have access to them are currently phones that uses satellites to communicate are remote islands such as Easter Island, Diego Garcia and Ascension Island. And nations like Africa, China, Canada, Russian and Australia, where landlines are rare to non-existents. Internet access has connected us together from wherever we are at, and made the means of communication easier, however as John Boynton Priestley said "The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. Shows that we are more focused on how to make the means of communication easier and less time communicating with each other. Navigation has also made a significant impact to the world we live today. With applications such as Google Maps, travel has never been easier, no longer has traveller got lost in the back street, asking the local for direction. With an interactive map it has enabled people to bypass the traffic even at peak hours, which allows to reduce time on roads and more time to spend on what people likes to do. It has also revolutionized real estate, by giving an overview of the real estate’s neighbourhood such as checking the length to amenities such as local shop or public transport

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