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2026-10-04 12:05 UTC

This article by Brian Potter on SpaceX's new version of their Raptor engine is also a great primer on rocket engine design: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-spacex-streamlined-the-raptor It's also very interesting to read about the engineering work in optimizing and simplifying these engines. And the incentives behind them: wanting to reuse rocket engines make them think very differently about reliability for instance

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