11/15/2023 notes of ENSC 100W
Space race
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US vs Soviets
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1930: Liquid rockets
- the shift to liquid rockets was because of the effientcy compared to solid fuel
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Soviets
- small range rockets
- Sergei Korolev founds the soviet space program
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German V2 Rocket
- first proper rocket
- most rockets are now based off it
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Sergey Korolev
- 1929 educated under tupolev
- 1932 joins the GRID
- 1933 heads the jet propulsion research institute
- 1938 sent to Soviet Gulug
- 1939 prison aircraft rocket design
- 1947 starts copying V2
- R1 boosting flight 1948
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USSR cold war problem
- NATO surrounded the USSR and the only solution was to use ICBM
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US redstone vs R7
- the R7 was the first serious ICBM
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Race to orbit