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MIT Rocket Team Boston Museum of Science 5 February 2011

An introduction to Rockets. MIT Rocket Team Boston Museum of Science 5 February 2011. Rocket propulsion from 400 BCE!. Ancient Greece, 400 BCE ARCHYTAS. Alexandria, 10-70 CE HERO. Rockets in War. The Rise of Modern Rocketry: Isaac Newton.

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MIT Rocket Team Boston Museum of Science 5 February 2011

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  1. An introduction to Rockets MIT Rocket Team Boston Museum of Science 5 February 2011

  2. Rocket propulsion from 400 BCE!

  3. Ancient Greece, 400 BCE ARCHYTAS

  4. Alexandria, 10-70 CE HERO

  5. Rockets in War

  6. The Rise of Modern Rocketry: Isaac Newton

  7. The Rise of Modern Rocketry: Tsiolkovsky and Goddard "Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

  8. A Rocket Tour

  9. Types of Rocket Engines • Chemical Propulsion • Most rockets you see on the ground • Liquid oxygen and hydrogen, HTPB, kerosene, hydrazine, sugar, Alka-Seltzer • Generate energy from breaking chemical bonds

  10. The Challenge • Chemical rockets have reached their theoretical limits for performance • High thrust, low power per unit mass • Very heavy, need big engines

  11. The Future of Rocketry • Electric Propulsion • Newer, more advanced rockets that use less fuel • Ion, nuclear, VASIMR, plasma ramjet, Hall thruster • Generate thrust by moving charged particles

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