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Not much is known of his personal life. After leaving school, Smith worked briefly at the customs department in Calcutta before joining the Calcutta police force as a Round Sergeant on 18th March 1913 on a salary of 100 rupees per month. Whilst with the police, he successfully completed his...

King of Sikkim with one of Smith’s rockets Credit: From the diary of Stephen H Smith

King of Sikkim with one of Smith's rockets King of Sikkim with one of Smith’s rockets Credit: From the diary of Stephen H Smith Despite his pioneering work with rockets he probably did not accomplish his ambitions. He visited the kingdom of Sikkim twice in 1935 to conduct his rocket experiments...

1940, he attempted two rocket launches carrying brownie cameras with an intension to take aerial pictures. Neither succeeded. By December 1944, still based in Calcutta, Smith was experimenting with compressed air and compressed gas instead of traditional solid fuel as a means of rocket propulsion.

February 1936, Smith joined the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) that had been founded in Liverpool three years earlier. He was probably the BIS’s first member from India. The BIS was one of many societies around the world established to promote the development of rocket technology and its...

By early 1930s rocket mail experiments were being conducted in America, Europe and Australia. Smith was the only one launching rockets in India. He experimented with rockets launches from ship to shore, shore to ship, at night time, across rough terrain and across rivers. Smith recorded...

Not much is known about his personal life. Smith was born in 1891 in Shillong, Assam. He was an Anglo Indian, a group of people with a European (usually British) lineage and officially recognised in the Indian constitution. Not much is known about his parents. His father, Charles William Bath...

Smith’s 65th rocket launch conducted on the morning of the 29th June 1935 was unique in its cargo and ambition. He demonstrated that living beings and not just inanimate objects could be transported by rockets. In a record making flight, rocket power was used to transport a hen and a cock about...

these experiments were conducted by a Calcutta based Anglo Indian called Stephen Hector Taylor-smith, usually abbreviated to Stephen H. Smith. Stephen H. Smith Photo: Superior Galeries Smith launched almost 300 rockets between 1934 and 1945 working mostly unfunded and primarily alone. At 15:35...

@Indx TechStyle It's related to pre independence history of rocketry in India i want you paste this article on this thread https://astrotalkuk.org/indias-forgotten-rocketeer-2/

Japanese use falcon9 and soyuz very often while we use arine space very rarely most of their satellites are forigen launch satellites and even they have high faliure rate compare to pslv and gslav mk3