Starship Prototype Unveiled

Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by codeulike on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:21PM (#21109396)

Here's a Wired article about the raptor engine - it's "a full-flow staged combustion engine, only the third engine in history to employ this technique ... The previous two attempts at such an engine, one in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and another in the US in the early 2000s, never made it beyond testing."

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/spacex-raptor-engine-starshi...

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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by Klathmon on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:38PM (#21109476)

And if you want to get a lot more detail on what makes a "full flow staged combustion engine" so special, this article from Everyday Astronaut goes into some amazing detail on this and many other engines.

https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/

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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by aaronblohowiak on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:01PM (#21110499)

This was AMaZING. Exactly the kind of content I want to consume on HN

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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by oska on Monday September 30, 2019 @02:28AM (#21112269)

This guy is amazing. Look out for his interview with Elon Musk that should be released in the next 24 hours on his YT channel [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q/vid...

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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled by mlindner on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:34PM (#21109457)

I'm sorry but did anyone do a rudimentary spelling and grammar check on that?

"Raptor is designed to power the new reusable vehicles SpaceX’s is building, the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket."

Also they call Tim Dodd an "industry expert"...

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