how much g force can a rocket reach when launching off into space?

Answer 1

A sidewinder missile will experience g's to as much as 50 g's but if you try to launch a satellite with that many g's you will just end up breaking the satellite. So they try to limit the maximum g's a rocket will produce during a launch so not to break equipment.

Answer 2

The rocket could probably reach much higher, but assuming it is a manned mission, 3 g's tends to be about the maximum. The earlier manned missions went up to 9 g's, or nine times your normal weight! This is considered the maximum sustainable g force for humans, with many people blacking out at this point. Short periods of higher acceleration are possible. Colonel John Stapp in 1954 sustained 46.2 g in a rocket sled, and Formula One racing car driver David Purley survived an estimated 179.8 g in 1977 when he decelerated from 173 km/h (108 mph) to 0 in a distance of 66 cm (26 inches) after his throttle got stuck wide open and he hit a wall.

Answer 3

Dude - I love a good conspiracy more than anyone, still those points you mentioned don`t hold. I saw different arguments to yours, and sure- it sounds very strange, yet there is gravity on the moon- one eights or something of that of the earth so the **** still drops. It can`t be that cold on the moon to need so much lead- lead is like the worst for keeping warm there is. This crap will freeze you. So you mean the radiation- I heard that earth is surrounded by extremely deadly radiation belt. Still- why would all the scientists would bull **** at once that it doesn`t exist? To get some cash? First missions usually fail and yes- there were a whole bunch of successful moon missions. And yes- there are plenty of the interviews with the astronauts and some of them speak of seeing UFOs. You can`t see the stars because the ssurfaceis still very lit up by the sun- it`s like seeing the stars in the daylight. Flag is just reacting on the commotion- it probably takes 8 times the time on the moon. So far I prefer the argument about showing the finger to the Soviets. And yes- the area 51 is probably a **** secret military base , where they fly different things. To sum it all upp- yes some weird **** is going on! Watch zeitgeist movie and fight the power.

Answer 4

For rockets with passengers (i.e., space shuttles):

To lift itself off the ground, it must exceed 1 g of thrust, since 1 g is (by definition) the gravitational field at the surface of the Earth.

However, lifting off at 1.1 g would be a very slow ascent that would be unstable and fuel-consuming. So instead, they go for as much thrust as the astronauts can handle. It ends up being about 5 to 7 g of thrust, though they throttle back during the phase when the shuttle passes through its maximum aerodynamic pressure ("max Q").

Answer 5

about 9 gs
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