SUPA-FNX
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Hi everyone !
I am new here and eager to start commenting and discussing about space exploration.
I have a question for starters.
I would like to design an imaginary space ship, but I would like it to be pretty realistic in many aspects.
I read about space shuttle that it dropped the SRBs at 46 km and they weighed 69% of the entire mass of the craft...and it was also using the SSMs at full thrust to that point. So possibly we can assume that it had lost about 75% of the entire mass at that point.
My question is as follows:
Does the space rocket Tsiolkowsky equation act like this....so it is not linear ?
Is there any calculation how the fuel is being burned ( percentage WISE at certain altitudes and speeds ) if the LEO is the goal ( 28 000 km/h ) on a typical space ship...if shuttle was not typical ?
I have hard time understanding the Oberth Effect relating sentence where the rocket accelerates faster at higher speeds due to kinetic energy. Does this relate to this phenomena ?
Yours truly ,
SUPA-FNX aka Juke
I am new here and eager to start commenting and discussing about space exploration.
I have a question for starters.
I would like to design an imaginary space ship, but I would like it to be pretty realistic in many aspects.
I read about space shuttle that it dropped the SRBs at 46 km and they weighed 69% of the entire mass of the craft...and it was also using the SSMs at full thrust to that point. So possibly we can assume that it had lost about 75% of the entire mass at that point.
My question is as follows:
Does the space rocket Tsiolkowsky equation act like this....so it is not linear ?
Is there any calculation how the fuel is being burned ( percentage WISE at certain altitudes and speeds ) if the LEO is the goal ( 28 000 km/h ) on a typical space ship...if shuttle was not typical ?
I have hard time understanding the Oberth Effect relating sentence where the rocket accelerates faster at higher speeds due to kinetic energy. Does this relate to this phenomena ?
Yours truly ,
SUPA-FNX aka Juke
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