I’m still worried about the Raptor shutdowns, but I’m crossing my fingers that it’s just extra conservative limits during the testing. As long as there isn’t really a risk to the pad, though, I hope they go for it and launch regardless of some flaky engines.
Yeah man I’m no expert but I don’t think you want to just send it when it comes to rockets. Flaky sounds like a no go but I’m not running the rocket show
I agree for most other companies, but SpaceX’s whole MO is to keep pushing limits and prototyping and testing. They probably could have stabilized the Raptor design and had something more reliable if they stopped trying to push the performance limits. This booster has some other big changes that are worth testing, so as long as they can get through stage separation, flying it as-is would have a lot of value.
I’m still worried about the Raptor shutdowns, but I’m crossing my fingers that it’s just extra conservative limits during the testing. As long as there isn’t really a risk to the pad, though, I hope they go for it and launch regardless of some flaky engines.
Definitely worrying but it’s also very early in Raptor development.
I think recently they got into the triple digits and they are still heavily developing them.
I do hope they stabilize at each variant enough to use them successfully to launch though. Just look at the iteration and versions of the Merlin.
All in all: HYPE
Yeah man I’m no expert but I don’t think you want to just send it when it comes to rockets. Flaky sounds like a no go but I’m not running the rocket show
I agree for most other companies, but SpaceX’s whole MO is to keep pushing limits and prototyping and testing. They probably could have stabilized the Raptor design and had something more reliable if they stopped trying to push the performance limits. This booster has some other big changes that are worth testing, so as long as they can get through stage separation, flying it as-is would have a lot of value.