Concept

Rocket

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Explores variable mass systems, rocket thrust, takeoff conditions, and accelerated frames.

Covers the pioneers in astronomy and rocket science who shaped our understanding of celestial mechanics and propelled us into space.

Covers the resolution of mechanics problems, focusing on a rocket and gas system.

Introduces the EPFL Rocket Team, detailing its projects, achievements, academic support, future plans, and sustainability efforts.

By the EPFL Rocket Team explores the control of rocket descent for a safe vertical landing.

Covers modeling a truck carrying nitroglycerin and analyzing forces on a rocket in space.

Covers laser-target interaction, including focusing, energy levels, skin depth penetration, ionization, expansion, ablation, and shock waves.

Explores conservation laws in collisions and rocket dynamics with variable mass systems.

Explores the concept of variable mass systems using a rocket example.

Explores the history and key aspects of space exploration, including launch bases, Soyuz statistics, and satellite launches.

Introduces the principles and applications of space propulsion systems.

Covers energy, collisions, variable mass systems, and dynamics of solid bodies, including rotation around a symmetry axis.

Explores conservation principles in rocket thrust and ejection speed measurement at Polytechnic University.

Analyzes the Ariane 501 case study, focusing on the software errors and system complexities that led to a launch failure.

Offers a historical overview of space exploration, focusing on key successes and failures.

Explores spacecraft propulsion principles, including thrust, acceleration, efficiency, and chemical propulsion in space mission design.

Presents a project to visualize supersonic flows for rocket design.

Delves into the history of space conquest, focusing on the Moon race and the success of the Apollo program.

Covers the Rocket Problem, exploring momentum diagrams, mass relations, rocket thrust, and providing a solution for no external forces.

Showcases the EPFL Rocket Team's projects for 2023-24, focusing on bi-liquid engines and rocketry basics.