New answers tagged fuel
-3
votes
Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
Small amounts of gasses and solids or not we are still governed by Sir Newton. After hundreds of years of heavily polluting Earth's atmosphere such that we can hardly breathe it, the comments here ...
1
vote
Accepted
Calculate distance from destination at which to commence deceleration burn
You don't really need to adjust for a starting velocity, because all motion is relative. You just have two frames of reference that you're going to accelerate between. You're thinking of the target ...
- 7,871
3
votes
Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
Are you building engines that move planets? Like, did you lower a moon-scale thrusters into Jupiter and are burning its Hydrogen in a fusion candle to turn Jupiter into an interstellar space craft?
(...
- 602
4
votes
Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
In most space flight configurations, most if not all propellants "outside" of the Earth's atmosphere use either liquid hydrogen as fuel and LOX (liquid oxygen) as the oxidizer, or hypergolic ...
- 41
20
votes
Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
The total mass of the (natural) interplanetary dust cloud is approximately $3.5×10^{16}$ kg. That's 7 billion Starship launchers. There is no conceivable way for humans to add significantly to ...
- 4,791
23
votes
Accepted
Could rocket exhaust eventually lead to detrimental effects from interplanetary space pollution?
No, this isn't an issue. Space is big, and the exhaust gases rapidly disperse, eventually merging with the solar wind. Exhaust can produce some solids, eg carbon, but these particles are microscopic ...
- 3,310
Top 50 recent answers are included