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Is it more efficient to eject burnt fuel as reaction mass in rockets?
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[QUOTE="Andrew Mason, post: 5451359, member: 15795"] You are correct that from an energy efficiency perspective the way to maximize the change in momentum of the payload/rocket for a given amount of energy, one has to maximize the amount of mass that is ejected. But that is not practical for a rocket. With rockets, the critical issue is reducing the mass that is ejected rather than maximizing energy efficiency. Rockets are designed to give maximum thrust with a minimum of mass loss. AM [/QUOTE]
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