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|    Dean Markley to Doctor Who    |
|    Re: The Rocket Motor of the Future Breat    |
|    29 Jun 20 04:42:18    |
      From: damarkley@gmail.com              On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 11:49:29 PM UTC-4, Doctor Who wrote:       > 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) ?       > >       > >       > >       >       >       > there is no future for rocket motors, after PNN will be patented all       > rocket motors will look like toys.              There is also no future for trolls named after fictional scifi characters.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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