P1_9 Can You Get Into Space for Peanuts?

Authors

  • Benjamin Edward Stanley Hall
  • Ashley Back
  • Stuart Turner
  • Gregory Brown

Abstract

 

Developing low cost space travel is a key issue since the retirement of the Shuttle. This paper looks at the feasibility of a mixture of toffee and peanuts in a low cost solid fuel rocket. It is found that this fuel mixture would lead to a mass ratio of about 54 which corresponds to a rocket consisting of 98% fuel and 2% remaining for the rocket structure and payload.

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Published

11-12-2011

How to Cite

Hall, B. E. S., Back, A., Turner, S., & Brown, G. (2011). P1_9 Can You Get Into Space for Peanuts?. Physics Special Topics, 10(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2039

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2011): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles