As the exhaust gas leaves the rocket engine it must push away the surrounding air; this uses up some of the energy of the rocket. In space, the exhaust gases ...

Angle – The angle at which the rocket is launched is one of the most important factors. A rocket that is launched straight up into the air will not travel very ...

20 нояб. 2023 г. · Aerodynamic forces are generated and act on a rocket as it flies through the air. Forces are vector quantities having both a magnitude and a direction.

30 нояб. 2011 г. · Fins control direction and stability. The stability of a rocket is its ability to keep flying through the air pointing in the right direction ...

Crooked fins or a blunt nose cone increases air drag (friction), causing the rocket to slow quickly. The second most important design feature is weight.

A rocket will fly only if the center of gravity is ahead of the center of pressure far enough to allow the air currents to cause a stabilizing effect.

A rocket needs lots of propellant, which consists of fuel and the oxygen (or other oxidizer) needed to burn the fuel. Since it flies in airless space, a rocket ...

Use higher pressures. · Keep weight to a minimum. · Increase rocket volume. · Streamline the body of the rocket to reduce drag. · Use a launch tube on the launcher.

If you launch it almost horizontally, gravity brings it down to the ground before it can travel very far. In between is an angle (45 degrees, in the absence of ...

As we said, if the Center-of-Gravity is forward of the Center-of-Pressure, the rocket will fly stable. If the CG is behind the CP, the rocket is unstable. It is ...