Ride Beyond the Sky To many, the sky is full of wonders, dangers, and adventures. Many people spend their adolescence in wonder. Most grow out of it but some keep that wonder and hold on to it and they want to explore the vastness and uncover how it works. I am the latter and to me; space is like a new world you can spend eons exploring; there’s something new and different wherever you go and something to learn every day. One day I want to study the sky, build rockets to go past it and come back, and maybe go past it myself. I made my first rocket four years ago. Though it only went a few hundred feet, I became completely entranced with rockets. This is also when I decided I wanted to become an aerospace engineer. Though I built the rocket …show more content…
To leave Earth all an object has to do is exert more force upwards than gravity is pulling downwards. However, to do this requires massive amounts of fuel. On average, a rocket’s weighs 200,000 pounds so I’ll make Thunderbug weigh that much too. So, to calculate how much force we need to get the rocket called Thunderbug to launch from the ground we need to know how much force gravity is acting on the rocket. To escape Earth’s gravitational pull rockets use thrust to output force great enough to overcome the force of the weight of said object. On Earth’s surface, the gravitational constant is 9.8m/s2. So to find the mass of Thunderbug we have to use the formula m = W/g, where W is the weight of the object, m is the mass of the object, and g is the acceleration for gravity, then plug our numbers in and solve for …show more content…
On the contrary to popular belief, objects in orbit do experience gravity. The objects feel weightlessness from freefall, essentially, objects on and around the Earth are always falling to the Earth’s center of gravity, but due to their velocity, the objects always miss crashing to the surface. The required speed to orbit Earth is 28,000 km/h, or 17,500 mph, and any less than this the object would fall back to earth. Rocket Thunderbug will enter orbit at a 90° angle with a velocity of 28,000 km/h. How do we make a complex mechanism like a rocket perform a precise job like launching from the surface and entering