Timeline for Why does a rocket engine increase power with speed if the burn rate is constant?
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 0:52 | comment | added | Jpe61 | Yea did some quick reading on this. Oh boy, talk about something being counterintuitive! | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 23:45 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | @Jpe61 it's basically like using a catapult to take off from an aircraft carrier that has just stopped is engines and is still drifting forwards. Despite accelerating the plane to much higher speed than the carrier could ever make, the carrier is still going forward in the end. — The trick is to push yourself off a reaction mass that's bigger than yourself. In a rocket, that mass is the fuel. | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 21:37 | comment | added | Jpe61 | "When the rocket is moving faster than its own exhaust velocity.." How on earth (or in space) can it do so? | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 16:27 | history | answered | Liriodendr0n | CC BY-SA 4.0 |