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It's not the first full-flow staged combustion engine ever built, but it is the first to get off the test stand and fly. Looks a lot more complicated in real l

It's not the first full-flow staged combustion engine ever built, but it is the first to get off the test stand and fly. Looks a lot more complicated in real life compared to the block diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor#/media/File:SpaceX_sea-level_Raptor_at_Hawthorne_-_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Raptor#/media/File:Spac... And the Super Heavy booster is supposed to have at least 28 of those. At one point it was 37.

WalterBright 6y ago
> a lot more complicated in real life compared to the block diagram Sure, jet engines are like that, too. Steam locomotives, too, they are festooned with pipes and things. I once spent some time at a museum tracing the tubes trying to discern their purpose. (I've seen many engines in a museum, simply none of them had any sort of detailed explanation of what you're looking at. Too bad, so sad. Just a couple sentences "This is an XYX motor from a GHZ." Making it boring.) It would be fun to see what all the tubes on the raptor engine are for.