What about 'friction' between rocket and exiting gas?
Drive wheels push ground back, propellers push water or air back, and rocket pushes gas back?
Pushing air back and pushing gas back "lights the bulb"? (enlightens the thinker)
The ground has matter, atmosphere has matter, vacuum has NO matter, thus nothing can push back. Is their an opposite reaction to the satellite in a vacuum?
Incorrect!
The rocket is pushed by the reaction with the massive amount of burnt fuel forced out at very high velocity.
You claim that you understand science - well clearly you do not, so go study Physics 101.
This might be a start:
The Physics Classroom » Physics Tutorial » Momentum and Its Conservation, Momentum and Its ConservationNo mention of friction being needed.
In fact, friction gets in the way, when a rocket is moving in the atmosphere,
- drag reduces the nett forward thrust and
- atmospheric pressure reduces the thrust of the rocket.
Rockets work better in a vacuum.
You might also try:
Lumen Boundless Physics, Rocket Propulsion, Changing Mass, and Momentum.And when you get past Physics 101 you could try:
Force and Momentum, Thrust of a Rocket but it does have awful sums and things!
I'll finish with just a little note on just how much mass a rocket engine pushes "against":
A Saturn F-1 rocket engine burns 2,578 kg of fuel + oxidiser PER SECOND. That is emitted from the engine nozzle at about 2,600 m/s.
Do a few sums and you will find that the momentum of ONE SECOND'S exhaust is around 6.83 MN. Since force is the rate of change of momentum, that is equivalent to a force of 6.83 MN or about 696,000 kg. This is about right for the F-1 engine, and does NOT depend on the atmosphere one little bit (only conservation of momentum - pretty basic!) In fact if you do a more exact analysis the total static thrust is HIGHER for a LOWER ambient pressure!
OK, you say the rocket cannot push on NOTHING, I guess you are right, BUT it is pushing on a MASSIVE amount (2,578 kg/sec) of burnt fuel coming out the back REAL FAST (2,600 m/s). Right at the exit of the rocket there is no longer a vacuum - the gas cannot escape at infinite speed! It is leaving at around 2,600 m/s (randomised by thermal velocities). So you the rocket temporarily destroys the vacuum immediately behind the rocket nozzle - after that - as a certain rocket scientist said "WHO CARES?" - mind you a lot of people in London and Antwerp cared a lot!
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So, get reading that Physics 101, etc, etc.