SpaceX's new ballin' rocket engine with record breaking Thrust-to-weight ratio ready for deployment:
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[QUOTE]SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will probably power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"[B]The Merlin 1D has a vacuum thrust-to-weight ratio exceeding 150, the best of any liquid rocket engine in history,"[/B] SpaceX officials wrote in a press release Wednesday. [B]"This enhanced design makes the Merlin 1D the most efficient booster engine ever built[/B], while still maintaining the structural and thermal safety margins needed to carry astronauts."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]SpaceX indeed plans to launch astronauts using the Merlin 1D. [B]The company is working on a manned version of its Falcon 9/Dragon transportation system[/B], in the hopes of scoring a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.[/QUOTE]
And a manned Falcon 9 too!?
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My dream is to work for space x. Theyre amazing.
As amazing as this news is..
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[video=youtube;Zj0851Wkm9c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0851Wkm9c[/video]
Wow they're making really fast progress.
Fookin ell I searched everywhere for an identical article.
Looks like I need to expand my keywords.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle is already ready for manned flights. They just need to build the Dragon Rider capsule and have it pass a gauntlet of tests.
But as Elon said:
[quote]"the Falcon 9/Dragon system that we're launching today, what can it do? If the degree of safety required was equivalent to that of the shuttle, we could actually launch astronauts on the next flight."[/quote]
I seriously wish I could go back and study astronautical engineering to work and develop rocket engines.
That would seriously be one of the coolest jobs to have IMO.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;39996794]As amazing as this news is..
[URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1255181[/URL]
[video=youtube;Zj0851Wkm9c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0851Wkm9c[/video][/QUOTE]
Holy FUCK that was intense.
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;39996788]My dream is to work for space x. Theyre amazing.[/QUOTE]
Same here, what department are you aiming for?
[QUOTE=PN_Redux;39996921]I seriously wish I could go back and study astronautical engineering to work and develop rocket engines.
That would seriously be one of the coolest jobs to have IMO.[/QUOTE]
Me too. You can say "I'm a rocket scientist"
[QUOTE=Bradyns;39996794]As amazing as this news is..
[URL]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1255181[/URL]
[video=youtube;Zj0851Wkm9c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj0851Wkm9c[/video][/QUOTE]
More angles
Holy mother of fuck that sound
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I really dig the picture in the OP.
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39998939]May be a stupid question, but i'm interested. With 147,000+ LBS of thrust, what stops the engine flying through the roof? I mean, it looks pretty thin from the video. Must be some serious stuff.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't find the set up for this, but here is the saturn V rocket's testing building. Generally, they use lots of concrete and steel to counteract the thrust produced.
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I doubt that their one was nearly as large, or so basic.
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39998939]May be a stupid question, but i'm interested. With 147,000+ LBS of thrust, what stops the engine flying through the roof? I mean, it looks pretty thin from the video. Must be some serious stuff.[/QUOTE]
Its about ~66,700KG of thrust.
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The arm on this thing can lift 100,000 kilograms, so im pretty sure that an arm like that could also hold this thing in place.
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39998939]May be a stupid question, but i'm interested. With 147,000+ LBS of thrust, what stops the engine flying through the roof? I mean, it looks pretty thin from the video. Must be some serious stuff.[/QUOTE]
Because it's not attached to a rocket so it can't fly, DUH
stupid non physics person.
I fucking love spaceX. Elon is living the dream.
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39999702]1) It doesn't show a arm like that in the video, it's just connected to the roof [I]somehow[/I].
2) Correct me if I am wrong, but it says 147,000 in the video. Not 66,700:
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What? It's fired up just like it would be if it was connected to a rocket, surely if you left it laying on the floor it would just burst out of control and fly everywhere. Doesn't have to be connected to a rocket to move???[/QUOTE]
147 000 pounds = roughly 66 700 kilograms
lbs = pounds
KGs = kilograms
These space vehicles have the coolest names. 'Dragon Rider' 'Merlin' shit's crazy.
Stop using shitty units, it has 720 KN of thrust.
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39998939]May be a stupid question, but i'm interested. With 147,000+ LBS of thrust, what stops the engine flying through the roof? I mean, it looks pretty thin from the video. Must be some serious stuff.[/QUOTE]
It's bolted down to a big steel frame. At the same place they do full stage tests where they test the whole rocket stage on a giant tower. Even on the launch pad the rocket is clamped down while at full thrust while the computers do a last minute diagnostic test of everything. This system saved their first cargo flight because one of the engines was malfunctioning so the pad didn
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Didn't release*
Damn Samsung keypad malfunctioned.
[QUOTE=Profanwolf;39999737]147 000 pounds = roughly 66 700 kilograms
lbs = pounds
KGs = kilograms[/QUOTE]
But kilograms is a measurement of mass, not force. Newtons is the metric measurement of force. (kg m/s^2)
I suppose whatever conversion you are using is fine as long as you're close to the earth's surface though.
[QUOTE=Splash Attack;40000160]But kilograms is a measurement of mass, not force. Newtons is the metric measurement of force. (kg m/s^2)
I suppose whatever conversion you are using is fine as long as you're close to the earth's surface though.[/QUOTE]
Hey I was just telling him where the number came from :v:
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;39999702]1) It doesn't show a arm like that in the video, it's just connected to the roof [I]somehow[/I].
2) Correct me if I am wrong, but it says 147,000 in the video. Not 66,700:
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Is this post a joke?
His point was that even a vehicle like that can lift 100k kg, it's not unlikely the building could hold down that force.
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What? It's fired up just like it would be if it was connected to a rocket, surely if you left it laying on the floor it would just burst out of control and fly everywhere. Doesn't have to be connected to a rocket to move???[/QUOTE]
The fuck
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