Expert: Mark Janus - 11/1/2007

Question
What rocket uses the most fuel?  Can you tell me where to find information on rockets and how much fuel different rockets use?

Answer
I've only worked with a few rocket simulations (the specs of which I was given by the manufacturer)....  I'd say the best place would be to maybe google (rocket, fuel, engine, thrust specific fuel consumption).  I've looked in some of my books to see if there was any tabulated data on rocket engines that are available, but I found no such table....  What I'm thinking you may really be interested in is which chemical reactants release the most energy (and potential thrust) per weight.  There are solid fuel rockets, and liquid fuel rockets.....all with differing chemical energy available, cost to manufacture, etc.

Sorry I'm not of much help here,
mj