Rocket Propulsion
MIT OpenCourseWare's graduate course on chemical rocket propulsion covers the modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines used in launch, orbital, and interplanetary flight. Lessons work through thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse, and nozzle flow analysis including real gas and kinetic effects. The syllabus also addresses structural constraints on engine design, propellant feed systems, turbopump machinery, and combustion processes across solid, liquid, and hybrid propulsion types. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and reference readings drawn from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics curriculum, free to access under MIT OpenCourseWare's open license. No certificate is offered, but the full set of assignments and technical content used in the actual MIT classroom is available for self-study.