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Re: Elon Musk confirms the Falcon 9 first stage can reach orbit as an SSTO.

From Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Elon Musk confirms the Falcon 9 first stage can reach orbit as an SSTO.
Date 2015-11-25 23:11 -0700
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Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:45:20 -0500, Robert Clark wrote:
>
>> 
>> known methods of altitude compensation.
>> 
>
>You mention "altitude compensation."
>
>Is altitude compensation a major reason for using multi-stage vehicles
>to achieve orbit?  That is, multi-stages would allow different engines
>for different altitudes.

The shape of the bell of the rocket engine depends on the pressure
surrounding the engine.  This indeed is one of the reasons for
multi-staging.  (another is to discard the weight of the tankage and
weight of extra engines that lifted that tankage when full)
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