NEW VIDEO TODAY on SpaceX’s legendary engine Architect, Tom Mueller. If you are fans of the Falcon 9 and Starship, he was a key member of developing those systems.pic.twitter.com/mNVnXVgbaq
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NEW VIDEO TODAY on SpaceX’s legendary engine Architect, Tom Mueller. If you are fans of the Falcon 9 and Starship, he was a key member of developing those systems.pic.twitter.com/mNVnXVgbaq
Tom is great & was instrumental in developing early versions of Merlin & Kestrel, but not later versions of Merlin or Starship/Raptor
I know Tom was a big fan of a methane Merlin. Obviously you’re trying to eek as much performance out of the propellant as physically possible but did you ever second guess if you should have just done a methane Merlin as a starting point?
He became a big fan of methane, but was not pushing it initially. That came from me reading about Soviet methane engine tests that got over 380 Isp. At that Isp, a subcooled methane stage gets slightly better delta-V than a hydrogen stage.
Tom has some great stories about experimenting with premixed O2/CH4 before SpaceX. That is not recommended haha.
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