Started by Ethan Cole (@ethan_c) ·
What the Saturn V actually burned per second
Five F-1 engines burning through more than 12 tonnes of propellant a second. And they solved combustion instability partly by detonating explosives inside running engines.
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How I got here
- Started with
- How much fuel did the Saturn V burn?
- Ended at
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
The Trail
- “saturn v fuel consumption per second” (google.com)
- Saturn V (en.wikipedia.org)
- Rocketdyne F-1 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Combustion instability (en.wikipedia.org)
they literally set off small bombs inside test engines to see if they'd recover
- RP-1 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation (en.wikipedia.org)
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