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How heavy is the Saturn v rocket?
5,040,000 lb (130,000 kg) with fuel tanks full 287,000 lb (2,290,000 kg) with fuel tanks empty.
What is it like in a rocket?
What part; cabin, engine, fuel storage tanks? When; maximum acceleration, orbit, interplanetary travel? Environments vary greatly.
Why do spacecrafts lose their large fuel tanks and booster rockets once they have left the earth's surface?
because rocket need les weight
What gas is in a rocket?
Rocket fuel.
Where does a rocket keep oxygen to burn?
Only liquid fuelled rockets (and then only some) rely on oxygen as the oxidizer. It is carried in liquid form in a tank (or tanks). It is them pumped and mixed with the fuel in the combustion chamber where the combustion reaction takes place. The combusion products then exit the rocket nozzle. In solid fuel rockets, the oxidizer (whatever that may be) is usually mixed with the fuel.
Where does the oxygen come from when the rocket burns fuel?
The oxygen is carried in tanks as a liquid, just as the fuel is.
How heavy is the Saturn v rocket?
5,040,000 lb (130,000 kg) with fuel tanks full 287,000 lb (2,290,000 kg) with fuel tanks empty.
How many fuel tanks on a airbus a 380?
10 fuel tanks
Were is the fuel stored in a liquid fuel rocket?
It is stored in two separate tanks. In the shuttle, the external tank(s) hold the two fuels as well as smaller tanks inside the shuttles wings.
How can a rocket operate in outer space?
Because the oxidant and the fuel are kept on board the ship in separate tanks.
Why did people start making two stage rockets?
One of the key factors in rocketry is the weight of the rocket. By designing a rocket that ejects parts of the rocket that has emptied it's fuel tanks decreases the overall weght of the rocket, extending the flight of the rocket.
Why do rockets drop there fuel tanks?
the efficiency of rocket propellant is called specific impulse the more the specific impulse the more the performance .
Where is the fuel kept in a liquid fuel rocket?
Most of a liquid rocket is actually the fuel tanks. In the case of a liquid the hydrogen and oxygen tanks are stacked vertically and are about the diameter of the whole vehicle and nearly span its length. The tanks are connected with a light weight fram or are integrated into one large tank with a seperator to keep the fuels from mixing. There is usually a small structure it the bottom that houses the engine(s) and one at the top the carries the payload or the next stage.
How many gallons is 2000 tons of rocket fuel?
2000 tons of rocket fuel is equal to about 530,000 American gallons. This is the amount of fuel that was aboard the Apollo - Saturn V rocket.
Why do pieces of a spacecraft fall off?
Usually rockets are divided into different stages. These type of rockets are called staged rockets and they work with a process called... stageing. The way it works is very simple, imagine a rocket built in one piece (one fuel tank) and a second rocket that is identical but has three stages (three fuel tanks). The rocket that has only one fuel tank needs to carry all its weight (rocket weight plus fuel weight) to launch. However the rocket with three fuel tanks can get ride of excess weight once the first stage is empty of its fuel. since the rocket gets ride of the first stage, the rocket isn't carrying extra weight around for nothing (and empty fuel tank). By doing this, scientist can make rockets go higher and faster using the same amount of space for fuel without needing to use bigger engines.
What is it like in a rocket?
What part; cabin, engine, fuel storage tanks? When; maximum acceleration, orbit, interplanetary travel? Environments vary greatly.
Why does the weight of a rocket change during a liftoff?
MOST of the structure that you see lifting off from the launch-pad consists of giant tanks full of various types of fuel, and MOST of that fuel is burned in the first few minutes of the flight, to get the whole thing off the ground, out of the atmosphere, and into earth orbit. The weight of the whole vehicle drops drastically, as all that rocket fuel is being pumped out of the tanks and burned.
