Starting with the basics of rocket propulsion, readers will start out making rockets made from stuff lying around the house, and then move on up to air-, water-, and solid propellant-powered rockets

    Let's fly some rockets! -- Model rocketry today -- Juno: A solid propellant rocket -- Launch pads -- Flight operations -- Compressed air rockets -- Rocket stability -- How high did it go? -- Payloads -- Selecting parachutes and streamers -- Water rockets -- Parachute recovery of a water rocket -- Subsonic aerodynamics -- How high will it go? -- Minimum-diameter rockets -- Mini-rockets -- Multistage rockets -- Cluster rockets -- Helicopter recovery -- Rocket and boost gliders -- Air rocket glider -- Rocket clubs and contests -- Onward and upward


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    Title :

    Make: rockets : down-to-earth-rocket-science


    Contributors:

    Edition :

    1. Aufl


    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    XIV, 504 S


    Remarks:

    zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst



    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    RVK:    ZO 8150
    BKL:    55.60 Raumfahrttechnik / 50.97 Technisches Spielzeug, Modellbau
    DDC:    621.43560228



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