PSAS/ news/ 2000-11-02 - Lecture by Rainier Anacker: Build a small Rocket for L.E.O. (10 kg Payload)

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

  1. Build a small Rocket for L.E.O. (10 kg Payload)
  2. Find the Delta-V Requirement for L.E.O.
  3. Find the Delta-V Requirement for L.E.O.
  4. The Rocket Equation
  5. Use Specific Impulse instead of Exhaust Gas Velocity:
  6. Typical Propellant Specific Impulses
  7. Mass Ratio in terms of Weights
  8. Re-write the Mass Ratio in terms of Weights
  9. The Rocket Equation In a Form suitable for practical calculations
  10. Our Task as Designers
  11. Mass Fractions
  12. Typhical Propellant Mass Fractions:
  13. Find a more systematic Solution
  14. Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) Vehicles
  15. Design a Two-Stage Vehicle
  16. Two State to Orbit (TSTO) vehicles
  17. 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?