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Teaching & AcademicsEngineeringAerospace Engineering

Rocket Engineering and Interstellar Space Propulsion

Become a rocket scientist and understand the most advanced space propulsion technologies.
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (606 ratings)
2,616 students
Created by Eliott Wertheimer
Last updated 5/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand fundamental rocket theory including the rocket equation and how to derive it.
  • Understand critical rocket design parameters and be able to use them.
  • Understand the physical principles behind chemical rockets and their fundamental engineering (combustion, exhaust, cooling, propellant systems, etc).
  • Understand the performance and difference between the propellant types used in current space launchers.
  • Conduct basic calculations to size space launchers to reach orbit.
  • Understand the need for and be able to size and calculate the performance of multiple stages space launchers.
  • Understand the need for and different design schools behind reusable space launchers.
  • Understand the physical principles and different technologies behind electric propulsion.
  • Understand the physical principles and different technologies behind advanced interstellar propulsion concepts.

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of physics (force, velocity, acceleration, pressure, etc).
  • High School Diploma mathematics level will be helpful to understand some calculations but not mandatory.

Description

THE ONLY COMPREHENSIVE, DETAILED AND APPROACHABLE ONLINE COURSE ON ROCKET SCIENCE AND INTERSTELLAR SPACE PROPULSION!

Space launchers and rocket propulsion systems are what allowed us to spread our spacecrafts from the Earth's orbit to the ends of the Solar System. They lift buildings to the sky, taking robots to Mars, enabling satellites to continuously transform human civilization and offering us the hope of one day spreading throughout the universe. This course offers the opportunity to learn and understand:

- The Fundamental Principles of Rocket Science and Rocket Theory.
- Chemical Rocket Design.
- The Engineering and Challenges Behind Expendable and Reusable Space Launchers.
- Electric and Low Thrust Space Propulsion .
- Advanced Nuclear and Interstellar Space Propulsion.

I will thoroughly detail and walk you through each of these subjects and explain down to their fundamental principles, all concepts and subject-specific vocabulary. This course is the ideal beginner, intermediate or advanced learning platform for Rocket Science and the engineering around it. Whatever your background, whether you are a student, a writer, a sci-fi addict, a computer scientist, an engineer, a business or sports person with an interest in Space, rockets or crazily powerful machines, you will understand the functioning and engineering behind our most ambitious technologies!

If you have questions at any point of your progress along the course, it will be my pleasure to answer any of your questions within 24 hours!

If this sounds like it might interest you, for your personal growth, career or academic endeavours, I strongly encourage you to join! You won't regret it!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in understanding the way rockets and advanced space propulsion works.
  • Anyone interested in learning about the acme of human technological achievement.
  • Basically, anyone interested in becoming a rocket scientist. and bragging about it at parties and dinners.

Featured review

Derek Brannock ATP, CFI, CFII, MEI
Derek B.
22 courses
4 reviews
Rating: 4.5 out of 52 years ago
This class has turned out to be very informative. The instructor knows the topic very, very well. However, if I might add a suggestion, please provide some example problems to work through so that the student can see the effects of sizes of rockets and payload capacity. Also, maybe provide some insight to Kepler’s Laws to show what it takes for a rocket to actually achieve orbit at different radii of the earth.

Instructor

Eliott Wertheimer
Aerospace Engineer and Founder @FuroSystems
Eliott Wertheimer
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 3,054 Reviews
  • 11,422 Students
  • 7 Courses

I have always been impressed and passionate about flying machines and the ultimate frontier that space represents. This led me to graduate from a Masters in Aerospace Engineering as one of the top students at a leading UK university. Throughout this degree I was offered the opportunity to understand and apply advanced engineering concepts to different design projects.

In my final year, I consequently designed a proof of concept nuclear battery or Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (refer to my courses to learn more about these) for nanosatellites which was judged by academics as one of the best projects of my department, won the Reaction Engines prize and presented at the 4th Interplanetary Cubesat Workshop. Similarly, I developed, with a team of colleagues, an unmanned rotorcraft able to fight fires, carry cargo and surveillance missions which eventually won a design competition for Agusta Westland.

I went on to found FuroSystems, a company which designs, manufactures and retails ultra light high performance electric vehicles. Our goal is to help accelerate society's transition to electric means of transportation through aesthetic, powerful and affordable machines. We are now present in over 30 countries and have sold 1000s of units.

I am very excited to be able to share my knowledge with curious individuals, who like me want to know more about the engineering behind the wonderful machines that populate our world.

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