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best kind of motor to achieve 100K feet by
charles[_2_]
My college rocketry club is trying to build a rocket that has to reach
an altitude of 100K ft... and I was wondering what kind of engine
would be better?...
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Best mass ratio to orbit? by
Monte Davis
Is there a source online or elsewhere that ranks past and current
boosters (and STS, Pegasus, other alternatives) in order of mass
ratio? Ideally, gross pad...
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Best material for space tethers by
Andrew Nowicki
Some plastic tethers are very strong but they
may be vulnerable to space radiation and thermal
fatigue. Perhaps the best material for the space
tethers is a...
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Best Tech Heat Shield by
[email protected]
The Space Shuttle heat shield has changed over time. Basically they
have replaced tiles with things requiring less maintence on the less
critical (cooler)...
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Bieliptic Transfer Orbits by
Charles Talleyrand
Can someone explain what a bieliptic transfer orbit is more
efficient than a Hoffman transfer orbit when the ratio of
initial to final orbits is large and...
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Bielliptic Transfer by
Reza
Hello,
Assume there is no plane change. Simply it is required to put a
satellite from its LEO orbit with inclination angle of zero into the
final GEO orbit...
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Black-hole powered thruster? by
Mike
The scientist who recently announced that they may have created an
extremely short-lived black hole in the lab got me thinking; is the
following a plausible...
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Blackstar 2-Stage-to-Orbit by
manofsanATyahoo.com
Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/030606p1.xml
Hmm, I've never...
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Blue Origins BE-3 Engine by
rocketman
....is being tested by NASA. Does anyone know any details of the
engine, like fuel, oxidizer, expected thrust?
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Boloworlds by
Jim McCauley
Living in deep space presents any number of problems, but one of the more
serious ones is the lack of gravity on small bodies like asteroids and comet
cores. ...
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booster propeller by
meiza
One of the limiting things in Earth to orbit rockets
is first stage initial thrust. The rocket engine
of the first stage has to carry all the weight of
the...
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Brute force re-entry by
Lizerd
Early on in the space program, the space capsule used brute force re-entry.
IE: it slammed into the upper atmosphere at high speed to slow down for
return.
The...
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Bubble Drive... by
TomRC
Now that bubble fusion appears to be panning out, as least as a
neutron source, can anyone design a "bubble drive" to take direct
advantage of it - beyond the...
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Building the better mousetr-...er, engine by
Mike Miller
Henry Spencer wrote:
"Current engines are (in my opinion) *nowhere* *near* fundamental
limits on
thrust/weight, even without magic materials like nanotube...
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Bussard ICF EXL engines by
George
Does anyone know how feasible Bussard's Inertial Confinement Fusion
EXL engine is? It is not laser ICF but electrostatic. I read an old
article about using one...
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Butterfly strapped to a bullet by
Cameron Dorrough
Story Musgraves' description of the Shuttle at the recent IICA2005
Conference in Melbourne, Australia, last week...
Story gave two slide-shows from his time...
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