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Re:Blue Origin BE-4 engines sorts out turbopump issues by tigershark on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:09AM (#24917799)
Accordingly to Musk they are aiming for 300 bar chamber pressure and 3MN for the non-throttling version of the raptor, and that will make it more powerful than the 2.4 MN of the BE-4. Currently the throttling version operates at 2.1MN, so it’s a bit less powerful than BE-4.
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Re:Blue Origin BE-4 engines sorts out turbopump issues by 51Cards on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @08:36AM (#24917973)
FYI They hit 300 bar for a 90 second run last week before it started to have issues. Getting there.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1318708955628118025

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Re:Blue Origin BE-4 engines sorts out turbopump issues by C1sc0cat on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#24919445)
For those of you that have not done hydrodynamics 1 Bar is roughly 14.5 PSI or 10.1 m of water
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