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Tim Dodd explains it very well: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/ https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/ It's basically a sweet-spot between b
by martythemaniak 6y ago
Tim Dodd explains it very well: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/ https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
It's basically a sweet-spot between being very powerful, very efficient, cheap and easy to operate and highly reusable. To get all these, they implemented a design that never got past the basic demo stage before, which included independently working out the secret sauce of the best Russian-made engine.
- phkahler 6y ago>> which included independently working out the secret sauce of the best Russian-made engine. Another hurdle was that there was no material available for some of the parts. SpaceX - so we'll get some materials science people to develop a new alloy that does what we need. Not an easy sub-task but one that needed a solution, so they found one.