ALEX
@ajtourville · Aug 3, 2024
“An engineer has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Elon Musk@elonmusk· Aug 3, 2024The amount of work required to simplify the Raptor engine, internalize secondary flow paths and add regenerative cooling for exposed components was staggering.
As a result Raptor 3 doesn’t require any heat shield, eliminating heat shield mass & complexity, as well as the fire
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Yeah
06:22 PM · August 3, 2024 · 65.2K views
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