to put this into context, highest before this was the Russian RD-701 engine back in the 1980's, and that engine never made it into production.
330Bar gives ~225 tonnes of force (thrust) for Raptor, some 5 time that max of the biggest jet engine currently available (the GE9X).
They are going to have 31 of these Raptors to power Starship's super-heavy booster - that's almost 7 thousand tonnes of thrust (some 15+ million pounds of thrust), over double the old Saturn 5 rockets first stage.
ie, enough to launch the entire DNC to outer space!
to put this into context, highest before this was the Russian RD-701 engine back in the 1980's, and that engine never made it into production.
330Bar gives ~225 tonnes of force (thrust) for Raptor, some 5 time that max of the biggest jet engine currently available (the GE9X).
They are going to have 31 of these Raptors to power Starship's super-heavy booster - that's almost 7 thousand tonnes of thrust (some 15+ million pounds of thrust), over double the old Saturn 5 rockets first stage.
ie, enough to launch the entire DNC to outer space!
330 Bar is a touch under 4,800 PSI.
That is a smidge under one third of the pressures at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
So 330 Bar pressure is the force of 1/3 of the Ocean sitting on you.
Yup,
the difference is that it's also at several thousand degrees, otherwise known and fugging toasty!
Which is a great idea in itself.
Seriously, even serious SpacEx fans sometimes overlook just what a major advance the Raptor really is.
Very much so, the first full flow, staged combustion rocket engine to take flight.
at the same time, NASA's SLS is going to take the RS25 shuttle engines and single use them (when they were re-usable).
Talk about nutts...
I'm afraid NASA is still living in the past.
Ijust noticed.....
MORE PEOPLE ARE TALKING/LIKING THIS ENGINE THEN THE DNC ZOOM MEETING LMAOOOOOOOO
DAMN. Our based African-American is killing it again.
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