By the end
What you'll build
- Explain why orbit is about sideways speed, and compute orbital and escape velocities from vis-viva with real constants
- Apply the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation in Python to predict delta-v, mass ratios, and the exponential cost of spaceflight
- Compare propellant families and engine cycles, and justify why real launchers stack solids, hypergolics and cryogenics the way LVM3 does
- Design a staged rocket in a simulator that reaches the ~9.4 km/s LEO budget with a realistic payload, and itemise where that budget goes
- Narrate India's launcher lineage (SLV to LVM3), what human-rating adds for Gaganyaan, and how life support and g-forces shape crewed missions
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
28 lessons across 5 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.