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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Are Rocket Engine Cycles?
"Without all the pretty pictures. So what are rocket engine cycles?" "You have a really good video called that, I mean, a lot of your videos that are technical are just exceptionally well done," he says. In an open cycle engine, you basically have like a separate small rocket engine in a sense,. it's a gas generator, they call it. And that will be used to create some, we'll say 10% of your the propellant flowing to the engine. That would be considered like open cycle, closed cycle, full flowStage combustion cycles are ways to tap into the propellant and get heat and pressure into an engine.
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