New answers tagged reuse
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Could the Rocketdyne F-1 have been reused?
fectin has it- Physically reusable, practically, not worth it.
Physically, the metals involved were pretty much kept within their operating limits, and the bearings might also be within their ...
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Could the Rocketdyne F-1 have been reused?
I found a definitive statement from one of the engine designers, Robert Biggs:
The only reason this was a non-reusable engine was it was non-recoverable. If we
could have recovered it after a flight, ...
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Could the Rocketdyne F-1 have been reused?
According to Henry Spencer on this yarchive.net posting:
almost any regeneratively-cooled liquid
rocket engine is reusable, even if it was built for expendable vehicles.
The design requirement for ...
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