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[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not a science guy, but isn't fuel efficiency like the most central issue of rocket science?

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Anything to improve specific impulse. Making the fuel better, optimizing combustion, nozzle geometry, etc etc. This is all way more important than basically any other aspect of a rocket, as far as making the rocket go from point A to point B is concerned.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's so much the central issue of rocket science that science nerds call it "the tyranny of the rocket equation"

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