/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5682643
you guys interested in Elon's massive thrust?

>>5639570
oh, far from routine still! On the ride up, three of the four thruster pods were malfunctioning at first. They did some quick diagnosis to save the mission (wrote code on the fly to hammer some pressurant lines to unstick some check valves).

And the next Falcon launch in June will effectively be a new launcher, with stretched tank, new engines (pictured), a new arrangement (8 in a ring around central engine, instead of 3x3), and an attempt to actively steer the whole first stage to a splashdown recovery.

And the manned Dragon variant will make pinpoint landings on land, as God and Heinlein intended.

>>5431690
SpaceX and Tesla are sharing the expertise in learning mass production techniques to build better cars and cheaper engines

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>>5293234
btw, that picture was taken in his private jet. He uses it to hop between the two companies he runs, SpaceX and Tesla.

This is Elon standing next to the Merlin 1D. It was designed for cheaper manufacturing (explosive forming of the engine lining, fuck yeah!) and reusability, using lessons learned both on the current engine and from building the Tesla production line.

>>5011637
did you know that the inner jacket of the merlin engine is explosively formed?

"The hardest part of the engine to mass produce is the electro-plating of nickel cobalt on the chamber. We create this thick metal jacket that takes the primary stress of the pressure vessel and it’s plated one molecule at a time. Plating is about the slowest way you can make a metal thing. With the Merlin-1D we take a metal jacket that is explosively formed. We take a metal sheet that’s in a cylindrical form and put it in a bucket of water, effectively. Sort of a concrete pool. And you set off an explosive and the jacket just goes “boohmp” and forms to the outer side walls into a jacket shape, so you have a mold, effectively. And then you just put the jacket on the chamber and braise it on. You can do several a day."

You just can't get more awesome than that!

the next generation engine, for the eventual geosynchronous comsat flights