What multistage rocket is made of
A rocket that drops its spent stages (R-7).
- Rocket stage — has part. Each stage is tanks and an engine, dropped once spent.
- Rocket interstage — has part. It joins the stages and separates them with pyrotechnics.
- Liquid-propellant rocket engine — has part. Engines on every stage.
- Rocket propellant tank — has part. It stores fuel and oxidizer.
- Rocket guidance unit — has part. Gyroscopes and a computer hold the trajectory.
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation — uses. Tsiolkovsky justified “rocket trains”.
- Aluminium — is made of. The tanks are aluminium alloys.
- Kerosene — is made of. The fuel is kerosene.