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I believe it was burning through the copper liner due to fuel starvation (oxygen rich which makes it SUPER hot) http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/160
by tw04 6y ago
I believe it was burning through the copper liner due to fuel starvation (oxygen rich which makes it SUPER hot)
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/1600/Merlin1C_Chamber.jpg http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1613/496/1600/Merlin1C_Ch...
Seriously getting downvoted? That's what caused the issue.... Elon already tweeted they had low fuel pressure...
- mulmen 6y agoYou may be right but Starship uses Raptor engines, not Merlins.
- tw04 6y agoI'm aware, the picture was to show what the liner looks like (approximately), the engines are of similar design. I apologize if anyone thought that was literally the liner in question.
- mulmen 6y agoAh yeah, lots of confusion re: TEB in other comments. Seems like a lot of people have the Raptor and Merlin mixed up so at least in this context probably have to be explicit.