Testing the 3D-printed Launcher E1-LOXCOOL725 LOX/RP-1 liquid rocket engine, printed with copper alloy and cooled with liquid oxygen. Captured during an oxygen rich transient. (Image courtesy of Launcher.)
Getting off of this planet isn’t easy, even after we’ve spent more than half a century doing it. In that time, the strategy generally involved going big, like the Saturn V. It’s still a viable approach today—just look at SpaceX’s BFR—but as the private se…
Source URL: 3D-Printed Rocket Engines & The Future of Spaceflight
Source Website: Advance Engineering – Engineering.com