Rocket

What is inside

• Solid boosters (S200). Two huge tubes packed with solid fuel that give the big push off the ground.
• Liquid core stage (L110). The middle stage with two Vikas engines, burning liquid fuel pumped from big tanks.
• Cryogenic stage (C25). The top stage burns super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen — the most efficient fuel mix.
• Brain & navigation. Computers and motion sensors that steer the rocket and decide when each stage separates.
• Fairing & spacecraft. A pointed nose cone that protects the spacecraft, then opens once the rocket leaves the air.

Stories in this thing

• How does a rocket fly?. Push gas down, go up!
• Launch to space. From countdown to a spacecraft on its way
• Why rockets have stages. Throw away what you don’t need
• Solid boosters. A star-shaped fire inside a tube
• Liquid engines & steering. Pumps, fire and swivelling nozzles
• The super-cold stage. Liquid hydrogen at −253 °C

School topics it covers

• Forces
• Newton’s laws

How children use it

Pull it apart with one slider, tap any part to hear what it does, follow a short story read aloud, then answer a few questions. Every thing comes with experiments to try at home and study notes linked to the NCERT chapter it supports.

More things to open

• Solar system — Why it is night, why summer is hot, and how Chandrayaan reached the Moon.
• Satellite — Why it never falls down, and how TV comes from space.
• Family car — Follow one drop of petrol from the tank all the way to the wheels.
• Aeroplane — How 70 tonnes of metal takes off, cruises and lands.
• Cruise ship — Why steel floats — and the secret crew corridor inside.
• Electricity — From the power station to your switch — and what happens when you flick it.