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0 pointsnumpad01y ago0 comments

Is Starship really not following the exact step of N-1 && VentureStar?

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Is Starship really not following the exact step of N-1 && VentureStar?

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ceejayoz1y ago· 2 in thread

Computers and materials came a long way since the N1, as Starship’s successful tests can attest to.

numpad0OP1y ago

But they're still losing roughly as many engines as Russians did in N1, so that sounds like a dubious claim.

What about the latter? Are they really not tracing the footsteps of the X-33 program?

What? Flight five didn’t lose any engines. N1 kept blowing up.

X-33 never got to a test flight, let alone a successful one.

mmustapic1y ago· 1 in thread

N-1 failed because of a lack of time/funding, not because the design was inherently flawed.

But that wasn't certain until Starship proved it technologically possible.

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