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Everyday Astronaut - Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?

’s engine is currently the king 💪 of chamber pressure at 270 bar and they’re aiming for 300 bar. Just to put into perspective how much pressure that is, that’s like putting a 740i Sedan which weighs nearly 2 tonnes and placing it on something not much bigger than an average sized US Postage stamp everydayastronaut.com/aerospik

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Ars Technica - SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster

: four of the rocket's 33 main engines shut down prematurely, water suppression system appeared to function well arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/

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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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: "Looks like we can increase thrust by ~20 per cent" 📈. “Fifty 🚀flying every three days on average enables over a megaton of payload 📦 to per year – enough to build a self-sustaining city on 🔴.” independent.co.uk/space/spacex

Picture : :ccby: :ccnc: flickr.com/photos/spacex/52822

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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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It was the 16th launch and landing for the B1058 🚀 booster. There are now more than 4,000 active 🛰️ in around 🌎.
: "Looks like we can increase thrust by ~20 per cent" 📈. “Fifty 🚀flying every three days on average enables over a megaton of payload 📦 to per year – enough to build a self-sustaining city on 🔴.” independent.co.uk/space/spacex

Picture : :ccby: :ccnc: flickr.com/photos/spacex/52822

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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A turkey vulture that appears to have been feeding on carrion just prior to perching on a branch along Biscuit Creek in Coralville, Iowa. Yes, that is an apartment building in the background but I'm pretty confident all the residents are accounted for 😉.
(04/12/23)

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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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📆 July 14, 2022 ’s primary goal is for the cost-per-tonne of thrust of to be under $1,000 — this means Raptor needs to be ~$250,000 💵 to produce everydayastronaut.com/spacex-r

📆 November 6, 2022 ships ’s 200th 📊 upgraded Raptor engine. SpaceX was also able to boost Raptor 2’s thrust by 25% 📈 teslarati.com/spacex-starship-

📆 May 1, 2020 will pay $146 million 💰💰💰💰💰 for each rocket engine. The needs four engines, and it is arstechnica.com/science/2020/0

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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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📆 2019 's has potential to be truly game changing at around $133 : kN over 25 flights, which could make it about as cheap to operate than the at $117 per kN per flight. But if the engine truly lives up to its hype, it could bring that number all the way down to $20 💵 per kN per flight.

is around $8 million 💰 per engine, the is less than $1 million and for the , Elon has mentioned he thinks they can produce the Raptor for cheaper than or close to the Merlin engine everydayastronaut.com/raptor-e

📆 February 2022 Musk indicated that the engine production cost was approximately half that of the Raptor 1 version. Production ⚙️ rate for Raptor 2 has reached 1.8 a day as of 📆 February 2023 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(

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Tom Jonell ☮️ 🇺🇦🖖🏼🕊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📸 · @Precis
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Recent photo from my local FB Lake Superior Birding Photography Group for you to enjoy 😎

Northern Harrier





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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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It was an incredible year for American bald eagles along the in and , Iowa. But the beginning of March is typically the end of the migratory visit and the eagles move north to breed. Sorry to see them go but look forward to our encounters next year.
(03/11/23)

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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁 · @bownaankamal
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The Peregrine Falcon is a powerful and fast bird of prey found in various habitats across the world. They are known for their incredible speed, reaching up to 240 mph (386 km/h) in a dive, making them the fastest animals on Earth.
🦅 Debre Libanos | Ethiopia

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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You may understand why holding a 5 lb wildlife lens angled upward to take a photo of an American bald eagle directly overhead is a bit of a challenge. The difficulty mostly lies in trying to keep the relatively close eagle sufficiently centered in the frame so that you have a useful crop.
(03/02/23)

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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American bald eagle in flight on an overcast day. Given the coloration on the head and beak it seems likely that this is a 3rd or 4th year juvenile.
(03/02/23)

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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A remarkable number of eagles on the between & this past winter. A friend counted 48 along a 7 mile stretch of the river & the . On Monday I observed 10 in stand of 5-7 trees. I think this one👇, taken from the paved trail, may be the closest I've been to a bald eagle.
(02/20/23)

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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#hawk #Hawks #Hawkeyes #Raptor #raptors #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #MastodonNatureCommunity #MastoArt #photography #alttext

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A red-tail hawk (Buteo Jamaicensis) I photographed. I captured this shot with a Nikon D7000 and an AF-S NIKKOR 70-300MM 4.3-5.8G ED VR.






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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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#eagle #eagles #Raptor #raptors #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #MastodonNatureCommunity #MastoArt #photography #alttext

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#eagle #eagles #Raptor #raptors #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #MastodonNatureCommunity #MastoArt #photography #alttext

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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#ioway #eagle #eagles #Raptor #raptors #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlife #wildlifephotography #MastodonNatureCommunity #MastoArt #photography #alttext

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Rihilistic Imagery by Rihilism · @Rihilism
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Bald eagle scores a prize along the just south of the in , Iowa. Normally they pull shad out of the river but this one looks like a perch to me. Can any fishers out there ID the fish species from the pic?
(01/25/22)

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