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Patrick Morrison

10 months

This is the first successful flight of my "Tiny Liquid" nitrous/kerosene rocket motor. It is a 24mm F28 motor that is built into a 6 grain Cesaroni case. It ...

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

No license, registration, or permission required: - Fly a 250 lb plane to 17,999 ft - Launch a 1 pound rocket over a mile high at mach 1.2 Fly a 0.56 lb foam RC pane in a park below tree level? OH SHIT, you got to register that with the FAA and put a fucking transponder on it.

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Patrick Morrison

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2 years

MSFC just over here causally doing the crazy shit

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Why I absolutely 100% despise the term "orbital class rocket engine" in two pictures:

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

4 years

Judging by this cloud shape, @arcaspace is using images from For All Mankind now...

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

10 months

I sped up the video by 25x to fit all of it in one minute

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1 year

SpaceNews

@SpaceNews_Inc

1 year

Firefly to buy remaining Virgin Orbit assets

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@TurbulentSphere

3 years

Oh, hello hotel lobby engine

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Let's say you popped the top dome open on a full SLS hydrogen tank and jumped in like it was a swimming pool. Instead of floating on the surface like with water, you would "sink", surrounded by the Leidenfrost effect, and impact the aft dome about 3.4 seconds later at 40mph.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

11 months

New chamber (with more L*) looks like it worked, going through data now.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

This is an orbital class rocket pump

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

GIVE US UNCUT FLAP CAM

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

6 years

When you see it.....

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Rocket Lab always seems to hide one side of Rutherford (not sure if a coincidence or on purpose). I only knew of one picture of that side (and it was a mockup). I FINALLY found another picture of that side.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Oh hello

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

11 months

Yes, let the copium flow

Marcia Smith

@SpcPlcyOnline

11 months

Hawkins: SpX will use both Starbase and LC39A launch pads for Artemis III HLS. In the "high teens" of number of launches needed to aggregate fuel. Lander is about half way thru that sequence. Must do all in quick succession due to boil off issues.

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2 years

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Patrick Morrison

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1 year

The V-2 engine is so jank

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7 months

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

"you can't reuse kerosene engines because coking" *laughs in 7 flights in one day*

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Firefly *really* needs to stop letting the interns design the fairings. Weird fairings is almost their thing at this point.

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2 years

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

10 months

@stoke_space Oh hello there

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@TurbulentSphere

2 years

@Cosmic_Andrew1 I wonder what the radiant heating did to it

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Big Chungus

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

I fucking love shots of upper stages. It is one of my favorite things.

Intuitive Machines

@Int_Machines

8 months

Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were captured shortly after separation from @SpaceX 's second stage on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon under @NASA 's CLPS initiative.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

9 months

I love that SpaceX actually fired a Merlin with the "just make the tubes do a 180" turnaround manifold.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

6 years

Because what the world needs is another set of rocket cycle diagrams. (this one is pressure fed)

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

"Hey, we started running the tests designed to find any issues hiding in the system, and we found some issues that we are going to fix" Internet: *ABSOLUTE FAILURE* "Oops, the 7th grain silo in a row just detonated lol" Internet: *tHiS iS wHy wE tEsT*

The Angry Astronaut

@Astro_Angry

2 years

There's no positive way to spin this. SLS flunked. They scaled back the scope of the test, and it still flunked. The clock is ticking before they'll have to unstack. If that happens, SLS needs to be axed. Boeing can't handle Artemis. Find someone who can.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

7 months

Yes Hahahaha.... YES

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

I always wondered what the little thrusters on the side of Sea Dragon in FAM were. They were not present in any other pictures, made no sense, and would interfere with the folded nozzle. I finally figured it out, they are the GOD DAMN SECTION VIEW LINES

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

The primary reason I use LinkedIn is to see if a particular machining company has posted the picture of a rocket injector they have (that they don't know is a rocket injector) in one of their "look at what we can make" posts. They have not yet, the wait continues.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

I guess that is one way to get a throttle profile.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

@jeff_foust Those are the reinforcements for the lifting hardpoints

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@TurbulentSphere

5 months

BE-3U

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Things in the VO flight: - After fairing deploy, the forward cam shows what looks like one fairing half still on - Shortly later, the LOX level is lower than it should be and there is a large 10g spike in acceleration - After that, all data is crazy and the gimbal is hard over

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@TurbulentSphere

5 months

Some BE-3U pics from the not-a-phone camera

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3 years

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

We need a "no NDA' propulsion design book written by XCOR, Masten, Armadillo, Virgin, SpaceX and NASA Marshall people. It would simultaneously be the most useful, entertaining, and contradictory book ever written.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

11 months

Big Chungus arrived at Huntsville today.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Does anyone know an easy way to model this stupid constant diameter spiral tube BS in CAD? I got close with the "spreadsheet and cry" method, but there are still gaps. Enough people have done it in industry that there must be a way to do it.

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@TurbulentSphere

3 months

@TSA_Pacific @flyLAXairport "fueled"? Doesn't look like there is a motor in it.... The charge wells look fired, were there any charges left or just residue?

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

That is certainty a design choice

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

The C O N E

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

Starship updates: same taking points, no new information, outdated renders. ARCA updates: radical design changes, unexpected directions, always entertaining.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Is..... is that a fucking winglet?

POPULAR FRONT

@PopularFront_

1 year

🇬🇧 #UK : A PhD student at Birmingham University has been found guilty of 3D printing a kamikaze drone for use in an ISIS attack. The man, named Mohamad al-Bared, had been sending weekly updates on the drone’s progress to ISIS members.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

*squeeeeeee*

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

New heatshield pattern

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

oh, fuck off. Have the balls to show either the water tower or the donut lander.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Radax joints and U/C valves have names, I wonder if the "my printer is too short" split ring weld joint that shows up on almost every printed engine has a name?

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Huh

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

what the fuck is "pip install"? just give me the god damn .py file, I'm an engineer, not a fucking programmer.

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@TurbulentSphere

1 year

THE FUCK IS NUMPY

Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

what the fuck is "pip install"? just give me the god damn .py file, I'm an engineer, not a fucking programmer.

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@TurbulentSphere

1 year

So, there is a reactionless drive allegedly launching on Transporter-8. Does anyone know which sat it is on? I know it won't work, but assuming that tiny fraction of a chance it does, I want to keep track of the orbit data.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

5 years

Looks like even McMaster Carr isn't immune to flaring the tube with the B-nut on backwards. If they are lucky, the other end isn't flared yet and they can slide it off.

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2 years

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

dev engineers

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

6 years

Still needs a few odds and ends added, but PR-7 is almost ready for launch. It is my 7th Pringle rocket overall, and the 2nd to use a @bps_space motor gimbal. Decided to change up the gimbal mounting and go with the Titan II "full greeble" aesthetic.

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@TurbulentSphere

1 year

If there is one thing I need, it is uncut flap cam of the whole flight.

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@JerryPikePhoto

1 year

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@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Found the Stoke test site:

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Ah, my o-rings have arrived

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk @Peter_J_Beck @lrocket @Firefly_Space @torybruno @launcher @Astra @AerojetRdyne @NASAStennis Not my video, but there is this majesty of AMDE hard starting on methane:

Methane Rocket Engine: Combustion Chamber Separation from Injector...

4000 (fps). Fast forward to about 13:30

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

10 months

Best guess as to what is going on. Not sure if they are film cooling the differently colored section of the nozzle, or doing pass and a half cooling.

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@TurbulentSphere

10 months

@stoke_space Oh hello there

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

10 months

I finally flew my nitrous/kerosene liquid rocket. The rocket I flew it in was a little on the heavy side, and it weathercocked pretty bad, but I'll take it. I still have some things to tweak, but I think I'm finally dialing in the details that matter.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

Hobby liquids have been doing coax tanks for decades.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Tripoli prohibits steel in rockets (except for bolts/nuts/washers/screws/snap rings/all thread/swivels/forged eye-bolts/quick links/sugar motor nozzles/forward seal disks/etc). This has prevented the use of Micro Hybrids due to the 21 grams of steel in whippits. We are so back.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

4 months

Nice to see that the preburner ice is finally public. Remember how all the industry people (with contacts) were talking about it, and all the non industry people were saying that it was dumb and there was no way they would do that?

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

4 months

Join @elonmusk for a tour inside @SpaceX 's Starbase and the brand new Starfactory. This video was shot the day before Flight 4, on June 5th, 2024. Part 2 comes out next week!

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

4 years

Sometimes I miss college

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

This design brought to you by someone who has never had software crash *right* when an e-stop needed to be pressed.

RocketTalk🚀

@Pad33space

1 year

GSE shrinkage. I ported our Bipropellant GSE controller over to an iPad Mini with a Bluetooth-Radio bridge. Includes full valve fill/pressurize, DAQ, recovery, and launch control. If it keeps getting smaller we’ll be able to do it all from a watch.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

McMaster shows shipping costs now, we have reached perfection.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

I have fixed all my issues with using python

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@TurbulentSphere

1 year

THE FUCK IS NUMPY

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Looks like Stoke might be using glow plugs? Only other group I have seen using them is Ursa Major (as part of a torch igniter). Anyone know of any other groups using them?

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

Firefly's injector is a colander

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@TurbulentSphere

6 months

Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

6 months

Can Blue just yeet a cubesat on a Star motor off the top of New Shepard to shut up all the dumb "orbital class" BS?

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@TurbulentSphere

3 months

The two Tiny Liquids are reunited! A huge thank you to @kegrocket for displaying one at @OpenSauceLive (it is now time for two stage shenanigans)

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 months

New TSA reality correction coefficient: Rocket without motor is now "fueled"

TSA_Pacific

@TSA_Pacific

3 months

Here's an item that shouldn't rocket to the top of your packing list... @flyLAXairport TSA officers discovered this prohibited fueled model rocket in checked baggage. Shoutout to our LAX team for this good find, their screening skills are out of this world!

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

11 months

I love that someone else's RDRE is just chillin in the background of the Rocket Lab presentation

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@TurbulentSphere

3 years

@jeff_foust

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@TurbulentSphere

8 months

hehehehehehehe it ran

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

@joebarnard Standard desert recovery then: pick a direction, grab some water, and start walking.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

11 months

Final predictions: No Fog: Scrub Low Fog: Launch, multiple engines out, vacuum nozzle implosion at staging High Fog: SN11 rules; pad fallback, best explosion, can't see any of it

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

3 years

Oh my god this paper is amazing: - Suborbital troop transport - Contrived backronym project name - XCOR methane engines with Inline 5 cylinder pumps - C-17 Fulton recovery system - Falcon V launched subscale demonstrator

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

@nospamkpb

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

9 months

There is an *incredibly* large market of "wants to work newspace but not live in California" people in Huntsville. The first fun company to open an office here would poach everyone.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Every time a college student uses green for inert and blue for oxidizer a propulsion engineer dies inside.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

7 months

It has happened

Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

The primary reason I use LinkedIn is to see if a particular machining company has posted the picture of a rocket injector they have (that they don't know is a rocket injector) in one of their "look at what we can make" posts. They have not yet, the wait continues.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

We must go smaller

Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

hehehehehehehe it ran

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

8 months

It was kinda jank, but Bagaveev Corp flew a LOX/propane rocket with coaxial tanks back in 2015.

Orbex Space

@orbexspace

8 months

We're very happy to announce that we have been granted an international patent across more than 12 countries to protect our innovative coaxial tanking technology, which nests the main rocket fuel tank within the main oxidizer tank. Read more: #spacetech

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

9 months

Whenever I get around to making it, I want to transport my L3 like this just for the lolz

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Tiny Liquid! Motor Classification: E21 Diameter: 24mm Propellants: Nitrous Oxide and Exxsol D40 + 1% PDMS Thrust: ~7 lbf (ignoring the hard start spike) Isp: I don't want to talk about it GSE: Standard U/C valve hybrid fill equipment

Nitrous Kerosene Liquid Rocket Engine Static Test

First successful test of my "Park Flyer" liquid engine. It is built into a Cesaroni 24mm 6 grain case so it can be flown in normal model rockets. It uses sta...

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

@PhotonEmpress @Falcon1Block0 Flap cam is best cam

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Small nitpick: - Rocketdyne - P&W - Aerojet - XCOR - Blue Origin Should be 6th (unless I forgot one).

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@stoke_space

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

@JeffGreason @SciGuySpace Looks like mostly dust, but definitely has some tetra-nope mixed in.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

5 months

Pathfinder is also looking more like a shuttle and less like a bridge

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Patrick Morrison

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10 months

I swear, if BE-3U is a CSJ....

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

2 years

Grid Fins

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

Think I finally found the BE-4 torch igniters (at least on the chamber). Blocks with lines coming in, and a spark plug looking thing on top. Plugs are connected to a box, probably for the exciters. There is a similar box on the preburner, haven't found the igniters yet though.

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

So torch igniters...

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Patrick Morrison

@TurbulentSphere

1 year

I don't think I have ever seen these actually integrated before

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