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is startship going to turn on before stage separation to prevent no gravity startup fails? does dragon/falcon9 hotstages?

Why did the Soviets build such an inferior moon rocket? Just by looking at it you can tell that this is doomed. Weren't they the leading nation in spaceflight up until that point?

>>15010785
You forgot
>Starship didn't work
And
>Why wouldn't Starship work?
Picrelated

>>14968649
First for most powerful rocket ever flown edition

bros.. was 33 engines a bad idea after all?

>>14547019
The Protons launch reliability was pretty awful until about the mid 70s so relying on 4-5 to launch successfully in a row to pull off a single lunar landing would have been even more risky than using the N1. They should have just stuck to original plan, which involved two 24-engine type N1s pulling off an Earth-orbit rendezvous landing profile rather than switching horses to a single launch Lunar-orbit rendezvous approach. Increasing the number of engines and using an assortment of tricks to make the N1 just capable enough to loft the 95 tons required for the LOR approach rather than 75 tons it was designed for is what killed it in the end

>>12729445
who cares

>more powerful than SLS
>more flight time than SLS
Never let the NASA shills memory hole with their 'most powerful rocket' bullshit.

>>12591867
Post YFW this monster managed to operate longer in its first flight than SLS' core stage.

>>12589534
No. There is another.

>>12588078
>Nasa also says that SLS is the most powerful rocket ever built
Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

>>12523035
Alright SFG I’ve been reading the post-mortem analyses of the N-1 flights and I have one question: WHY THE FUCK DID THE THING KEEP BLOWING UP?

You’d think after the first two failures they’d have their shit together, but noooooo, the third and fourth launches also failed. I know N1 Launch 4 almost made it, but it still failed to test the second third or fourth stages. The N1 is a beautiful rocket it’s just a damn shame that it was so fucked.

Whatever happened to french space guy's N1 documentary?????

you're a big rocket

How could you make it work?

>>11140306
>>11140314
The N-1 was designed to hot-stage (as shown by the gaps between each stage in pic related) like most other Soviet rockets and therefore, had no need for ullage motors to keep the propellant settled during stage separation.

WANT
BIG

>>10926986
Fuck i didnt noticed

WE NEED MORE ENGINES

Never gonna work too many engines just like pic related.

Every additional engine beyond 1 increases risk and such rocket design must be used only as a last resort.

>>10251004
Not that guy but I am also an idiot with no understanding of orbital mechanics.
Can you explain whats wrong with his statement? On the face of it, it seems reasonable - estimates for a mars trip go as high as 300 days. For the moon, estimates are 3-4 days.
Pls no bully just want to learn.

>>9485449
> BFR test articles should be completed by early 2019.

You want a sneak peak for the performance of the BFR? Well then I suggest you look up this bad boy.