Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Feb 5, 2021
Someday the leverage arm won’t matter as much when you go to hot gas thrusters though, right? Those will become a powerful source for the flip and the engines won’t be as necessary, right? Or will the engines always light to aid in the flip even with hot gas thrusters?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Intuitively, it would seem so, but turbopump-fed Raptors have much higher thrust & propellant mass fraction than pressure-fed gas thrusters & they’re already there
02:44 AM · February 5, 2021 · 0 views
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