| ▲ | chasd00 2 hours ago |
| The stats are pretty out there. Iirc just the fuel pump, which you can probably pick up and put on your desk, generates 100k HP. |
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| ▲ | jvanderbot 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Well, it's powered by bleeding exhaust from a very big rocket. |
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| ▲ | TomatoCo an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | One of my favorite clips to give a sense of scale for rockets is this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70u748VALt4 I show someone and then I tell them, that's not the rocket exhaust. That's the exhaust for the engine that runs the fuel pump for the rocket. | |
| ▲ | jasonwatkinspdx an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nope, Raptor is full flow staged combustion, so both the fuel and oxidizer have dedicated preburners and turbopumps each. | | |
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