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Uninformed guess: They didn't have enough space for anything fancier than a grid pattern. Perhaps the new engines have a smaller footprint.
by archon 14y ago
Uninformed guess: They didn't have enough space for anything fancier than a grid pattern. Perhaps the new engines have a smaller footprint.
- hga 14y agoI've read one of the changes in the new engines will be their using their own turbopumps. It's easy to imagine how their previously sourced ones wouldn't allow an internal layout that was optimal for the external layout of the engines.