Chemical fuel efficiency

Can someone please provide the relative power that can be achieved from
the various fuels used in rockets by mass.

Those I am interested in our Nitrous Oxide/ rubber e.g. Spaceship 1
Hydrogen / Oxygen e.g.
Apollo
Gunpowder
Shuttle solid boosters
Paraffin/Oxygen
e.g. SpaceX
Hydrazine / xxx
e.g. Me 163
and any others that are in use/ or proposed that people know of.

I am not worried about engine and storage mass at the moment.

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Can someone please provide the relative power that can be achieved from
the various fuels used in rockets by mass.

The term I believe you're looking for is ISP.

However, that only tells part of the equation. Since for fast acceleration
you also want a high thrust.

Googling, first hit brings up: http://www.dunnspace.com/isp.htm which
appears to be useful.



Those I am interested in our Nitrous Oxide/ rubber e.g. Spaceship 1
Hydrogen / Oxygen e.g.
Apollo
Gunpowder
Shuttle solid boosters
Paraffin/Oxygen
e.g. SpaceX
Hydrazine / xxx
e.g. Me 163
and any others that are in use/ or proposed that people know of.

I am not worried about engine and storage mass at the moment.


Engine can change things quite a bit.