SpaceX's envisioned BFR is much bigger and far more powerful than the company’s other rockets. (Image credit: SpaceX) Big BFR The BFR iteration was designed to be 387 feet (118 meters) tall, with the ability to carry payloads up to 100 metric tons all the way to the surface of Ma...
Musk also pointed out during the meeting that the achievement is particularly impressive, given that many of the company’s suppliers dedicate all or most of their businesses to battery cell manufacturing, while Tesla focuses on several other business sectors and still managed to surpass the mileston...
While RP-1 is affordable and stable at atmospheric temperature, methane offers elite performance and burns clean, leaving no residue on rockets for better reusability. However, these engines are highly complex to design, and the only other models were created and tested in Russia in the 1960s....
Although minor progress has been made in the last six or so months, NASA headquarters – for the most part – still effectively operates as if SpaceX’s next-generation launch vehicle plans do not exist, all while the agency is seriously considering other similarly unproven rockets with years ...
Mentioned this in the other thread also, but the water deluge volume seemed to be scaled back for this 6-engine test... Super fountain deluge is at the OLM...
Somehow the diameter (width) to height ratio makes it look much more like a long pencil than other rockets, possibly because they all have side boosters. ecarfan Well-Known Member Sep 21, 2013 23,094 22,565 West Vancouver, British Columbia Jan 12, 2023 #2,098 The ratio of the...
But I'm having trouble with the pressure differential part. Rockets are cylinders designed with a high pressure inside. We're proposing burying them with just 1atm inside to keep the pressure out, that there's your differential. But I have no experience or training here to know how diff...
As for other prograde US locations beyond Wallops, GA is trying to open up a spaceport, though it will likely be limited to pretty small vehicles. Kwajelin is kinda on the radar as far as launching rockets in the past few decades (a couple F1's went from there as well as a few ...