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beambottoday at 3:26 AM3 repliesview on HN

Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...


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Taniwhatoday at 7:21 AM

I'm not sure they're all that simpler, the basic plumbing probably hasn't changed much, it's just that modern fabrication tech means you can hide all the complexity inside

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eagerpacetoday at 3:37 AM

And to think, it wasn’t that long ago competitors we still using old Russian engines for their domestic rockets. Brilliant work to get back to leadership in this domain.

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apitoday at 11:13 AM

Simple is harder than complex.