Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · 22. Juni 2024
It's also just incredible how many they're building. People laughed when Elon said they'd be building one a day.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
We could build a lot more, but the next version of Raptor is really the one to scale up production. We begin testing it in McGregor within a week or so.
Regenerative cooling and secondary flow paths have been made integral to the whole engine, thus no heat shield is required. Nothing quite like this has ever been done before.
Taking away the engine heat shields also removes the need for 10+ tons of fire suppression behind the engine heat shield, as any gas leaks simply enter the already super-heated plasma surrounding the engines, rendering the leaks irrelevant.
Raptor 3 also has higher thrust and Isp.
13:38 · 23. Juni 2024 · 406.603 Aufrufe
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