Why does the article claim most powerful rocket engine ever?
Why does the article claim most powerful rocket engine ever?
They didn't claim that. The rocket will be the most powerful, with eight of those newer engines. That will provide over 8,000,000 pounds of thrust.
I'm with you. The F-1 is still the champion of champions.
It about 1.72 times more powerful, the specific impulse of the RS-25 is 452 and the F-1 is 263.
Because Lord Foul is resident now, not then.
They don’t... It’s tricky wording. They say the core rocket will be the most powerful ROCKET ever... 4 liquid engines and 2 solid boosters. Total of 8.4 million pounds of thrust.
5 F1 rockets at the bottom of the Saturn V put out about 7.5 million...
Impulse is a really important thing to think about when you are talking about rocket engines, too. An easy way to think of impulse is thrust over time.
In that case, 1.5 million pounds for a 150 second burn for an F1 is still eclipsed by 0.5 million pounds for over 500 seconds.
The Russians used to employ many, many smaller engines on their rockets to get the same power as our few large engines. If you think about it, they had to get the same power as we did to get into orbit.
Impulse, impulse, impulse....
Sorry, jpsb. I didn’t see the other comments, even though I hit the “view replies” button. Didn’t mean to lecture. I’m just a middle-aged Engineer who started out working with rockets. Part of me wishes I’d never left aerospace...
I was a boy when Apollo was launching. Saw the first landing and walk on TV. I was enthralled. Swore I was going to grow up to be a “Rocket Scientist”. Darn near made it... :-)