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Texas, near Brownsville, on the Gulf coast.


8 posted on 05/06/2020 4:57:11 PM PDT by amorphous
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Image of the single, off center, raptor engine. Musk claims up to 31 of these raptor engines will be mounted in this same space, for the deluxe "super heavy" models. Gimbal mount is capable of 15 degrees of movement. I don't know if that is total or 15 degrees in any direction. Also, note the numerous landing legs folded up inside the skirt. Rocket body and unitized constructed tanks are made from stainless steel. Lox and methane tanks share a common bulkhead. The raptor burns LNG and LOX pumped from unpressurized tanks by two full-flow turbo pumps into the main combustion chamber. Each engine is capable of 200 tons of thrust and they're shooting for an eventual thrust of 250 tons @ 300 bar of chamber pressure!


10 posted on 05/06/2020 5:12:27 PM PDT by amorphous
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