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menace brown
menace brown on 18 Sep 2015
Commented: Walter Roberson on 18 Sep 2015
In 2004, Burt Rutan won the Space X prize with the experimental spacecraft, Space Ship One. The spacecraft was launched at 25,000-ft altitude, climbed to an altitude of 100-km (62 miles), glided back and landed on the same runway from which its mother-ship departed.
Problem 2.0: Assuming that the spacecraft uses all its fuel to achieve a vertical velocity (u) at 25,000 feet, what is the value of (u) to reach the desired space altitude? Hint: Use the conservation of energy equation for this problem:
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 18 Sep 2015
Huh? The spacecraft does an instantaneous burn of all of its fuel as soon as it is launched from the mothership, so the weight of the fuel does not need to be integrated over time in accordance with the propellant burn rate, and we do not need to care about the efficiency of the fuel? We are just to assume that one nanosecond it is released from the mother ship and the next nanosecond the ship has acquired a velocity of u?

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