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For Kerosene/Gaseous Oxygen like Buran used, you'd need some sort of sparkplug right? That seems inherently less reliable. > so SpaceX didn't pay that much at
by catalogia 6y ago
For Kerosene/Gaseous Oxygen like Buran used, you'd need some sort of sparkplug right? That seems inherently less reliable.
> so SpaceX didn't pay that much attention to it
That's quite an assumption. They didn't decide as you would have, so they must not have thought about it much?
- avmich 6y agoI think the whole quote is in order here. > I suspect it's a question which is considered less important so far, so SpaceX didn't pay that much attention to it, considering they had to do a lot of other things already. They had a lot of other things to work on, so they - because of that, I suspect - didn't pay that much attention to it. I don't think it's the same as what you wrote.
- catalogia 6y agoI strongly suspect they've given the matter orders of magnitude more engineer-hours of consideration than you have. Yes, they have many other things to consider as well; that's why they have a lot of engineers.
- avmich 6y agoI think for some questions you don't need to measure who spent more time to determine who's more correct. I also think that SpaceX realized they'd need to give many more efforts to develop this particular superior technology - I agree that this could be expensive and would take time. Maybe the Starship plans also affected their decision.
- Dylan16807 6y agoIt's not whether they considered it, it's whether they had the spare engineering hours to develop it.