TEA-TEB is pretty nasty stuff, it spontaneously combusts in the presence of oxygen. So, you just dump some in to the combustion chamber and it should get hot enough to light the LOX and RP-1. It has to be stored under nitrogen to prevent it from going boom in the air.
I don't know if the TEA-TEB is shared between the Merlin motors.
I am not sure if the mechanism for restarting a Merlin 1D, whether or not it injects a set amount, or it keeps dumping it in until the engine lights up.
The Falcon stage is falling in to the atmosphere tail-first, so perhaps because the core stage was falling faster, it had more difficult time trying to light it?
A lot of H2-LOX engines light with a simple sparker, because H2 is more energetic than RP-1 it doesn't need as vigorous of an ignition. The problem is H2 is a lot harder and more expensive to deal with, which is why Falcon uses RP-1.
This is the point of the article. Those five engines were huge. The five F1 engines of first stage of Saturn V were more powerful than the 27 Merlin 1D of Falcon Heavy. The Space Shuttle's RS-25 is also more than 2x bigger than the Merlin.
The Smithsonian has part of a mockup of a F1 filling one of their rooms. Highly suggest visiting it or some other place with an F1 on display.
No, ULA uses Russian RD-180 and RS-68 on their rockets. SpaceX's Merlin is a newly designed engine that is similar to some that NASA have used in the past.
Exactly. They WANT channels like this. Controversy and douchbaggery attracts clicks.
They are only dropping him because of the public backlash. They are also dropping every channel that isn't over a certain level of clicks or anyone else they can manage to steal money from.
You are not too far off there. PIT is starting to allow non-fliers to the airside terminal to access the mall parts. The long term goal is to remove the landside terminal entirely and use the unused half of the airside terminal as more mall space.
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As long as Alan Tudyk narrates the audiobooks.
It sells very well.
TEA-TEB is pretty nasty stuff, it spontaneously combusts in the presence of oxygen. So, you just dump some in to the combustion chamber and it should get hot enough to light the LOX and RP-1. It has to be stored under nitrogen to prevent it from going boom in the air.
I don't know if the TEA-TEB is shared between the Merlin motors.
I am not sure if the mechanism for restarting a Merlin 1D, whether or not it injects a set amount, or it keeps dumping it in until the engine lights up.
The Falcon stage is falling in to the atmosphere tail-first, so perhaps because the core stage was falling faster, it had more difficult time trying to light it?
A lot of H2-LOX engines light with a simple sparker, because H2 is more energetic than RP-1 it doesn't need as vigorous of an ignition. The problem is H2 is a lot harder and more expensive to deal with, which is why Falcon uses RP-1.
No, it was the fact that it doesn't necessarily relight when you try it, and each try uses up a charge. Eventually you run out.
This is the point of the article. Those five engines were huge. The five F1 engines of first stage of Saturn V were more powerful than the 27 Merlin 1D of Falcon Heavy. The Space Shuttle's RS-25 is also more than 2x bigger than the Merlin.
The Smithsonian has part of a mockup of a F1 filling one of their rooms. Highly suggest visiting it or some other place with an F1 on display.
I love the fact that they include "pricing" on the SpaceX website, like your just buying a refrigerator...
Or a flamethrower.
No, ULA uses Russian RD-180 and RS-68 on their rockets. SpaceX's Merlin is a newly designed engine that is similar to some that NASA have used in the past.
Actually I think the problem was running out of TEA-TEB ignition fuel.
Someone has to host the videos. The advertisers are going to do it themselves.
Exactly. They WANT channels like this. Controversy and douchbaggery attracts clicks.
They are only dropping him because of the public backlash. They are also dropping every channel that isn't over a certain level of clicks or anyone else they can manage to steal money from.
So you don't mind a 3rd party knowing the content of each webpage you have visited?
I wouldn't last 15 seconds.
That describes me. Perhaps I am an AI.
The modus operandi of privately owned utility companies: Socialize losses, privatize profit.
His last name stands for Pain In The Ass, which is what capchas are.
This is what I think too, though how do you short a cryptocurrency? Are brokerages actually trading in these?
All burned out from being run too hard for too long. However there will be plenty of brand new unsold ones available.
Brilliant idea:
Elon put a thumbdrive containing 100,000 bitcoins in the glovebox of the car. Anyone that can build a rocket to get them can keep them.
Oh by the way, can you stop at Mars and found a colony while you are there?
Or maybe Google shouldn't be anyone's nanny.
Aww, but strawmen are so easy to beat.
Which explains nicely why YouTube for Kids is stupid. YouTube, much like a knife or gun, should only be handled by a child under adult supervision.
Not to mention regulatory capture. Basically once the regulations benefit Uber, suddenly they are all for them.
Things in orbit are not continuing upwards. They are, in fact, falling.
You are not too far off there. PIT is starting to allow non-fliers to the airside terminal to access the mall parts. The long term goal is to remove the landside terminal entirely and use the unused half of the airside terminal as more mall space.
http://www.pittsburghmagazine....
http://www.flypittsburgh.com/m...
I have no clue why someone would want to go through TSA security just to go to... a mall?
Sell advertising.