Timeline for How are 9 Merlin 1D engines packed and able to fit in a Falcon 9 FT first stage?
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| Mar 8, 2022 at 12:09 | vote | accept | Kevin Muhuri | ||
| Jul 16, 2021 at 18:42 | comment | added | CuteKItty_pleaseStopBArking | @KevinMuhuri old thread, but.. On the falcon 9 , the outer ring of Merlins gimbal along one axis only. And when they do gimbal they need to act together, to avoid touching each other. (mostly) just for roll control. The central Merlin has 2-axis gimbal, and unrestricted space to do so. | |
| Nov 7, 2020 at 6:34 | comment | added | uhoh | It was Wikipedia's number through July 2020 as well | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 19:15 | comment | added | Kevin Muhuri | Oh that was your comment on that thread I presume. I got my figures from EN.WP. A diameter of 93.5 cm will require a minimum larger diameter of ≈ 3.378 meters. So I guess that could work. But what about the gimbal range? I'm assuming even a gimbal of 4° for all the 9 engines could put the diameter past 4 meters. That's just my assumption. I've not worked out the numbers to back that. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 18:53 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |