Rocket Flight for a carousel
Built for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs. Simulate a carousel live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.
Delta-v budget
5524 m/s
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The equation that rules spaceflight. Your Δv budget depends only on exhaust velocity and the ratio of full-to-empty mass — and it's brutally logarithmic.
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Governing equation
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The rocket equation grows delta-v only with the logarithm of the mass ratio, so a single stage hauling empty tanks all the way up is hopelessly inefficient. Staging drops dead weight along the way: each stage contributes ve·ln(mass ratio), and their sum easily clears the ~9.4 km/s needed for low Earth orbit.
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Governing equation
Runs locally in your browser — free forever. Scale to the cloud when reality gets heavy.
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The International Standard Atmosphere is the reference model all aircraft and instruments are calibrated against. Temperature falls steadily through the troposphere at 6.5 °C/km, then holds constant in the stratosphere above the tropopause. Pressure and density decay roughly exponentially — at airliner altitude the air is only a quarter as dense as at sea level.
Data Inspector
Governing equation
Runs locally in your browser — free forever. Scale to the cloud when reality gets heavy.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is this good for educators?
- Yes — this version of "Rocket Flight for a carousel" is framed for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. It runs in any modern browser, free, with no account required.