On November 2, 2000, Rainier Anacker gave PSAS a lecture on what size a rocket would have to be to take a 10 kg payload to a 200km circular orbit.
The Lecture
?Click here to start his powerpoint presentation
Table of Contents
- ?Build a small Rocket for L.E.O. (10 kg Payload)
- ?Find the Delta-V Requirement for L.E.O.
- ?Find the Delta-V Requirement for L.E.O.
- ?The Rocket Equation
- ?Use Specific Impulse instead of Exhaust Gas Velocity:
- ?Typical Propellant Specific Impulses
- ?Mass Ratio in terms of Weights
- ?Re-write the Mass Ratio in terms of Weights
- ?The Rocket Equation In a Form suitable for practical calculations
- ?Our Task as Designers
- ?Mass Fractions
- ?Typhical Propellant Mass Fractions:
- ?Find a more systematic Solution
- ?Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) Vehicles
- ?Design a Two-Stage Vehicle
- ?Two State to Orbit (TSTO) vehicles
- ?Problems with arbitrary value of GLOW
Presentation Source
Here is Rainier's lecture in powerpoint, however it seems to not be a valid powerpoint file?