{"id":3666,"date":"2023-03-13T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:34:56","slug":"what-is-terran-1-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-terran-1-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Terran 1 Rocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Terran 1 Rocket:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>world\u2019s first 3D-printed rocket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>built by<\/strong> California aerospace <strong>startup<\/strong> <strong>Relativity Space.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The rocket is <strong>110 feet <\/strong>(<strong>33.5 meters) tall<\/strong> with a <strong>diameter of<\/strong> <strong>7.5 feet (2.2 meters<\/strong>) .<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eighty-five percent<\/strong> of its mass <strong>is 3D printed<\/strong> with metal alloys, including the engines.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>powered by Aeon engines<\/strong> using <strong>liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas<\/strong> as <strong>propellants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has nine 3D-printed Aeon 1 engines in its first stage and one 3D-printed Aeon Vacuum engine in its second stage.<\/li>\n<li>The rocket will eventually be <strong>capable of putting up to 2,755 pounds<\/strong> (1,250 kilograms) <strong>into low Earth orbit<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is 3D Printing?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3D printing or <strong>additive manufacturing<\/strong> is a process of <strong>making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved <strong>using additive processes<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In an additive process, an object is c<strong>reated by laying down successive layers of material<\/strong> until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced cross-section of the object.<\/li>\n<li>3D printing <strong>enables you to produce complex shapes<\/strong> using less material than traditional manufacturing methods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO)?<\/h3>\n<p>A low Earth orbit (LEO) is, as the name suggests, an orbit that is relatively close to Earth\u2019s surface. It is normally at an altitude of less than 1000 km but could be as low as 160 km above Earth \u2013 which is low compared to other orbits, but still very far above Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.hindustantimes.com\/tech\/news\/launch-of-world-s-first-3d-printed-rocket-terran-1-canceled-at-last-second-71678596120009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Launch of world&#8217;s first 3D-printed rocket, Terran 1, canceled at last second<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terran 1 Rocket is the world\u2019s first 3D-printed rocket built by California aerospace startup Relativity Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}