Liquid-fuel rocket
Motor cohete de combustible líquido
- Date
- 1926 · confidence high
- Place
- Auburn, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Robert Goddard (16-3-1926); theory of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1903) and Hermann Oberth (1923)
- People
- 👤 Hermann Julius Oberth1894–1989👤 Robert Goddard1882–1945
- Field
- Movement
What it is
First flight of a rocket propelled by petrol and liquid oxygen, with a gyroscope and steerable nozzles in later versions. It founded modern rocketry.
What it led to
- V-2 and ballistic missiles
- Space race and satellites
- Rocketry societies (VfR, GIRD) as a seedbed of engineers
Built on
- Gunpowder rocket1232
- Treatise on multistage rockets and delta fins (Siemienowicz)1650
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation1903
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
- Liquefaction of gases (Linde, Dewar)
Made possible
- Oberth's 'The Rocket into Planetary Space'1923
- Noordung's rotating space station (Potočnik)1928-1929
- V-2 ballistic missile (A4)1942–1944
- Orbital launch vehicle and ICBM (R-7 Semyorka)1957
- Staged-combustion rocket engine (S1.5400)c. 1959
- RL10: the first liquid-hydrogen rocket engine to fly27 de noviembre de 1963
- DC-X Delta Clipper: vertical takeoff and landing rocket18 de agosto de 1993
- Nuri (KSLV-II), Korea's first orbital launcher2022
- Space launch vehicle