Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Nov 17, 2020
It took about a half a century for anyone to beat some of these engines. Raptor is the first one to surpass the RD-270 (by being the first full flow to fly) AND beat the RD-180's chamber pressure. Merlin broke a few Soviet held records too in TWR.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Our first Merlin engine design was really bad tbh. Nothing worked well & some parts didn’t work at all. 18 years later & thousands of upgrades make it a great GG cycle engine.
04:10 PM · November 17, 2020 · 0 views
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