/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15495502

Is there some Raptor guy who smacks everything together or is this more of a machine guided process? What is ideal?

I would love to have a raptor as decoration, better (and maybe less expensive, depending on the artist) than a gay statue.
Speaking of price, imagine if raptors were as expensive as RS-25 engines. Both have more or less the same thrust. The latter is 100.000.000$/u, assuming a generous 50% of margin for Aerojet Rocketdyne, that's a cost of US$50 million. Since SpaceX already made 44 raptors, they would have put 2 billions just for the raptors...

>>12501216
>SSME
The ssme is tame compared to the Raptor
Also the raptor is literally 1/100th the price of an ssme, and will probably cost less than a million per unit after a while

lol compare the pictures wokeipedia uses for RS-25 and Raptor
>virgin high budget launch photography of an RS-25 static fire
>chad engine on a pallet by the shed

>Raptor second stage for falcon 9
IM GONNA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/6lsx5v/analysis_of_raptor_engine_second_stage_for_falcon/