02-03-2018, 05:16 AM
(02-03-2018, 03:28 AM)DataPacRat Wrote: "Life is what happens while you make other plans". Still plan on being a member here and contributing more, just haven't quite had enough time the last few days to even look up Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation.
I'll save you the time (unless you've already looked it up).
Delta-vee = Ve * ln®
Where Ve is the rocket's exhaust velocity, ln(x) is the natural logarithm of a number x, and R is the ratio between the mass of the rocket on a full tank and the mass of the rocket on an empty tank.
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