SPACECRAFT LAUNCH VEHICLES

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OVERVIEW

Sounding rockets
Staging of rockets Subsystems of launch vehicles and functions

SOUNDING ROCKETS

is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.
consists of a solid fuel rocket motor and a payload Low-cost Access to Space.

STAGING OF ROCKETS

Rockets are engines that produce their own propulsion using self-contained propellants. The primary stage of a rocket is the first rocket engine to engage. Secondary stage. Payload.

Avantages

The main reason for multi-stage rockets and boosters is that once the fuel is exhausted, the space and structure which contained it and the motors themselves are
useless and only add weight to the vehicle which slows down its future acceleration.

A further advantage is that each stage can use a different type of rocket motor each tuned for its particular operating conditions.

Diadvantages

staging requires the vehicle to lift motors which are not being used until later, as well as making the entire rocket more complex and harder to build.
In addition, each staging event is a significant point of failure during a launch, with the possibility of separation failure, ignition failure, and stage collision. Nevertheless the savings are so great that every rocket ever used to deliver a payload into orbit had staging of some sort.