Timeline for Can Falcon 9's engines be ignited more than 4 times if there is enough TEA-TEB?
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | The design target for F9 was 10 flights with minimal refurbishment. That implies at a minimum 30 firings for the center engine, assuming absolutely no test firings and only RTLS landings. As most landings are drone ship landings, and there are a couple of test firings as well, it's more like 40+. We have one booster that as flown 8 times, so it looks like they at least hit their target, maybe they even found during the last checkouts that they can go higher. Soot buildup / coking is going to be one of the major problems where they will at some point have to strip and clean the engines.# | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Which suggests the FEMA (failure analysis) work done during design was aimed at a mean lifetime of more than 100 ignition cycles to meet reliability requirements. | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 10:50 | vote | accept | Ashvin | ||
| Mar 3, 2021 at 6:41 | history | edited | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 6:36 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |