• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    SpaceX uses natural gas on anything equipped with a Raptor engine, this is true, but it wasn’t the company’s primary accomplishment or field of research like with Blue Origin.

    It looks like starting with BE-7 Blue Origin started using Hydrogen and are now researching potential nuclear fuel options, I hadn’t even heard of these engines before today, it looks like they’ve never been used outside of testing phase, so I suppose I might have been overly critical.

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        7 hours ago

        If you read my comment you will see that Blue Origin has primarily developed and sold Natural Gas rocket engines. Blue Origin is the Jeff Bezos owned Fucking Natural Gas Rocket Engine Company. What part about this is unclear to you?

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          6 hours ago

          The part where your not calling Elon Musk’s fucking natural gas rocket engine company a Fucking Natural Gas Rocket Engine Company

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            5 hours ago

            SpaceX also had the Merlin, Kestrel, and Falcon series which were LOX/RP-1 fueled and they also had the Draco series which were Hydrazine fuel.

            Fuck both of them, but Blue Origin is most well known for their Natural Gas rocketry.