SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night

Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by cblconfederate on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:59PM (#28043750)

bootstrapping itself by extending tech designed decades ago? that doesn't sound right. Until today, the biggest rocket design was still the soviet N1 from the 60s. It's good to celebrate space achievement but rewriting history is annoying

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by xjlin0 on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:07PM (#28045307)

Did N1 designed to be refuel/Re-ignition/reuse or fly to&back from Mars, etc? Please take a look which one is bigger? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship#/media/File:Su...

Wiki:

N1 LEO payload is ~95 t, weight 2750 t, height 105.3m

Starship LEO payload is 100~150 t, weight 5000 t, height 120m.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by Ancapistani on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:13PM (#28043883)

The novel thing here isn’t the tech, but the scale at which it’s being developed and the price point that they’re targeting.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by adampk on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:27PM (#28044001)

I am struggling to understand the comments here that seem to not think that what SpaceX has done isn't more than the natural rate of progress.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by ricardobeat on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:22PM (#28044387)

I am struggling to understand your double negative!

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by adampk on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:59PM (#28202188)

hahaha

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