Antriksh Yaatra : The Journey

Sorabh · August 14, 2017

Hello good people! I have decided to finally start a career mode after playing around in sandboxes for ages. This story will be told from Jatin Kerman's point of view. So enjoy this mission report. And do give a feedback!

Antriksh Yaatra: The Journey

'Moving forward when the entire world holds you back.'

Chapter 1.1 : The Revelation

In a sleepy town of a sleepy country, Jatin Kerman gets out of his bed, sleepy as heck. Yesterday was just like the day before and tomorrow will be no different either. Its amazing how dull the nation had become after achieving independence. Now the only short bursts of excitement happened during the annual Kockey tournament. But then again, his country, Kindia, won that every single time, so it was getting boring too.

If only there was some excitement in his life….

He poured himself a cup of tea and picked up the newspaper. The front page made him do a double take.

Hmmm? A space program? Or is it ‘programme’ ? And what is this talk about moose? Regardless, it seems that the country’s leadership had finally lost its mind. Space travel is for the rich (like UNKK) or the excessively proud (Like their Koviet friends). But us? We were just learning how to walk! There was no need for this stupidity!

Anyways not his problem. He was going to stay the heck out of this. Wait a minute! There is something else written here!

No! No! They can’t do this to him! The only thing he knew about rockets is that they go up and hurt people!

Well he wanted a little excitement, so now he was getting some.

Edited August 14, 2017 by Sorabh

Sorabh · August 14, 2017

Antriksh Yaatra: The Journey

'Moving forward when the entire world holds you back.'

Chapter 1 : The Humble Beginning

Calls were made, meetings were held and after everything was said and done, the plan for the Kindian Space Research Organisation (KSRO) was finalised. They would first conduct atmospheric and meteorological test around the launch site.

Several sounding rockets were considered for this purpose. Ultimately Jatin settled on a few unused parts from UNKK. It was not high tech and they were going to throw it away. But hey, those parts gets the job done!

The first sounding rocket was the ‘Rbk’ rocket. It was just a little solid rocket motor (read: glorified firecracker) which would hurl a science payload in the sky. Everyone glared at Jatin when he asked them why they could not do that with an airplane.

Day 1

The little rocket stood on the launchpad in all its glory(which, frankly was minuscule). The staff were bidding goodbyes to the rocket, their eyes teary. Jatin was slowly losing his patience with all the crying ladies and gentlekerbs.

“For the love of science! There are a hundreds of such rockets all over the place! It was going to be launched one day or the other!” Jatin bellowed when he finally lost it!

“But Sir! We will miss it!” Lalit Kerman, the intern, was bawling his eyes out as he was trying to reason with (the very angry) Jatin.

“Stop that or I will strap you to the rocket! Then both of you can die together!” That shut up everyone pretty quickly.

Soon everyone was back at their stations as the rocket prepared to launch.

Ten

Nine

Eight

Seven

Six

Five

Four

Three

Two

One

Zero

And Lift off!

The staff cheered on as the rocket ignited and cleared the launchpad within a moment. Its high TWR ensured that pesky crosswind has no effect on the trajectory

The motor ran out of fuel and then separated from the payload.