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|    David Spain to David Spain    |
|    Re: SN11 - One hop wonder    |
|    09 Apr 21 13:25:20    |
      From: nospam@127.0.0.1              On 2021-03-30 10:06 AM, David Spain wrote:       > Also I remain somewhat concerned about the plumbing of a methalox       > rocket. The SpaceX video upon ascent shows what appear to be some       > evidence of small methane leaks around the firing Raptors. New fuel, new       > headaches. I'm not convinced they have all the kinks dealing with       > methane propellant worked out yet. Which is to be expected given the       > novel fuel.              I had also speculated elsewhere about the possibility of a hard start       during one of the engine relights:              Per an Elon tweet:              > https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1379022709737275393              Dave              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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