More Efficient Engine Needed
Michael Mecham’s “Slicker SLC-6” (AW&ST March 22, p. 54) mentions the use of the three RS-68 rocket engines on the Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle. Why is this inefficient engine being used for this application? It has a specific impulse of 415 sec., which is obviously inefficient compared to the...
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