>>13420361highest chamber pressure of any rocket engine ever
highest thrust to area ratio ever
a cluster of raptor engines beats every other rocket engine taking up the same amount of space by a long shot
>>13421682>is there no abort, no parachute?there will be, it's in the works
> if there is any issue with the engines when they try to land everyone dies?there's engine redundancy
they can land with an engine failure because they have 3
>>13421753>Does not have to be the engine that fails, could have caught a softball sized meteorite in the fuel tank.a softball sized meteorite can be detected in advance and avoided
>There could be a structural problem near the engines bending their baseplate, something lke that.structural integrity is one of the first things they test and verify
if there's an issue with the rocket, it'll be the engines
>If you have to rely on a cold start of rocket engines so 100 people don't die on every single landing you are going to have a 1/100 to 1/1000 failure rate killing everyone on boardspacex is aiming for a failure rate comparable to a passenger plane
>he could never have it be for paying people on a daily basis like that, he would be loosing entire ships once a month if there were a lot of launchesstarship is not going to carry a single human until it has completed at least 100-200 consecutive successful missions
>>13421807>As an interesting aside, you should go look up what the estimated failure rate for the shittle was in the years leading up to Challenger. Unfortunately it didn't get much better after '86 either.yup
early shuttle 1/9
late shuttle 1/90
a death trap
>>13422716this is true
starship has a long way to go and it's not going to do E2E flights before it is proven to be as reliable as an airplane
