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Well if engines can be damaged this way, then idea of Starship landing on unprepared Moon surface and then taking off can be tossed into the bin.
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Well if engines can be damaged this way, then idea of Starship landing on unprepared Moon surface and then taking off can be tossed into the bin.
- credit_guy 4y agoNot really. The booster has 33 engines that go at full throttle during launch. Tha Starship has only 3 engines. Only one or two of them are used when landing here, on Earth. It stands to reason that on the Moon or Mars, with their much lower gravity, only one engine will need to be used, and only at partial throttle.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoOr possibly multiple of them at very low throttle to help with stability.