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> Likely the shortest time from spec to manufacturing for a new rocket engine (2 weeks, usually this process takes many months in manual engineering using CAD)
by bee_rider 2y ago
> Likely the shortest time from spec to manufacturing for a new rocket engine (2 weeks, usually this process takes many months in manual engineering using CAD)
Does anyone in the field of rocketry specifically know if this alleviates some previously annoying constraint?
My uninformed gut suspects that these rocket spend an overwhelming amount of time in the post-design stage (I mean rocket engines seem to stick around for a long, long time, right?). But I’m a programmer I don’t know anything about this stuff.
- Gravityloss 2y agoA software build used to last the whole night.
- anamax 2y agoThat's the wrong way to think about it. "We've built a great new way to design physical structures." "So what? The existing ways work just fine." "We designed and built a rocket engine in two days." However, even in the rocket field, there's a "design, simulate, build, test" cycle. They can do two of those steps in effectively 0 time and with significantly lower cost. Moreover, it looks like the design has incremental feedback from something akin to simulate.