1. Rockets are lunched from the equator of the earth from a westerly to easterly direction. This is done to both minimise the distance to outer orbit and take advantage of the earths rotation about its axis. (Note that the earth is an oblique spheroid making it widest at the equator)I'll mark you later, I gotta go out soon.
However, in the meantime, NEXT QUESTION:
Discuss some strategies used to minimize fuel consumption of rockets (3 marks).
2. The Russian scientist Konstantien had developed multistaged rockets to limit the fuel needed to launch a rocket into space. This involved dumping individual, empty fuel cells/containers when they are empty causing an acceleration.
3. A manoeuvre called the slingshot effect basically harnesses another planets orbit around the sun to enlarge its own velocity (I won't go into any detail here as it has been said earlier.).
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