What is the primary advantage of a liquid fueled rocket?
-The throttability, because a liquid fueled rocket’s thrust can be changed during the flight. B: What types of vehicles make use of liquid rocket engines? -Space Shuttles, Deep Space Rockets, Saturn 5 5. A: What exactly is combustion? -Combustion is a chemical reaction where a fuel and oxygen are burned, usually producing CO2, H2O, and heat as a product. B: In model rocket engines is the oxidizer a solid, liquid, or a gas? -In a solid rocket engine, the oxidizer is mixed in with the solid fuel, so it is a solid. This is very different from liquid or hybrid engines. In both of those, the oxidizer is stored seperatly and pumped into the combustion chamber seperatly from the fuel. C: What three things must be present for combustion to occur? -Fuel, an oxidizer, and a source of ignition must be present for combustion to occur. D: Combustion produces a mixture of heated materials that leaves the engine. What do we call this heated escaping material? -The heated fuels that leave the engine a
