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Serial staging with single rocket engine design (cont)
Total ΔV is calculated to be 13.827 km/sec.
Research the net for rocket engines to use. Obtain an idea of what current and reasonable Isp's to use. Learn what rocket engines where used and in which stages. Which engines are used for lower stages (earth to LEO) and which engines are used for upper stages (LEO to GEO). Select the engines to use from the list to be shown next. Reference:
http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/engines/engines.shtml
As above, select a range of reasonable values of ε (structural mass ratio) to use. Call this the list of ε.
A Matlab Program was developed to design the rocket parameters that covers all the flight sequences starting from the surface of the earth to the final position. Design objective was to find the smallest total fuel needed to reach final position given the selected engines (Isp) and the list of ε.
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