From: doc@tardis.org   
      
   On 6/28/20 9:54 AM, JF Mezei wrote:   
   > On 2020-06-27 18:19, dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> space cheap enough for the rest of us. While a conventional rocket engine   
   must   
   >> carry giant tanks of fuel and oxidizer on its journey to space, an   
   air-breathing   
   >> rocket motor pulls most of its oxidizer directly from the atmosphere.   
   >   
   >   
   > *Most* of its oxydizer?   
   > Until what altitude is there enough air to run a rocket engine?   
   > How long out of the roughly 8 minutes for first stage engine firing does   
   > it take to reach that altitude?   
   >   
   > Could such an engine be efficent when what it breathes in is 80%   
   > nitrogen and 20% oxygen?   
   >   
   > Would such an engine have both a LOX turbopump as we know it, and a   
   > separate one that pushes gaseous air into combustion chamber? (with the   
   > LOX turbopump activated once a certain altiutude is reached.   
   >   
   > Is it theoretically possible to design the injectors and combustion   
   > chamber to handle both gaseious pure oxygen at high pressure (after   
   > pre-burner)  and gaseous  mix of nitrogen and oxygen (air) ?   
   >   
   >   
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   there is no future for rocket motors, after PNN will be patented all   
   rocket motors will look like toys.   
      
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