For each kilogram of kerosene burned, 3 Kg of CO2 goes into the air.5
112,184 Kg x 3 Kg CO2 = 336,552 Kg
That means 336,552 kilograms of CO2 go into the atmosphere every time Falcon 9 is launched.
Source: https://8billiontrees.com/carbon-offsets-credits/carbon-foot...
144 Falcon launches is less than the emissions of just the flights that take off from O'Hare in a single day.
1) Fully fueled Falcon 9 uses about 180,000kg of RP-1
2) 144 flights totals 24,920,000kg
3) O'Hare has about 1000 flights a day (about 900 domestic, 100 international)
4) 737 holds about 20,000kg of fuel (The 747 can hold 160,000kg)
5) 90/10 split gives a total of 34,000,000kg
Unfortunately there is no real way to do rocketry without burning fuel. We will have to offset it with carbon capture.
True, but NASA uses hydrolox for the SLS (apart from the uber-polluting SRBs). At least it doesn't dump CO2 in the high atmosphere.
The rocket gets past 10 km (troposphere) in about a minute, 50km (height of stratosphere) in a little over two minutes and is over the Karman line by the three minute mark. The total burn time may be 9-10 minutes (or maybe a bit more, if there is a circularization burn).
So it's not like that entire fuel load is getting burned at sea level. Majority of the CO2 is going into the vacuum of space - which is a pretty good place for fossil fuel CO2 to go to.