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#356 – Tim Dodd: SpaceX, Starship, Rocket Engines, and Future of Space Travel
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Tradeoffs Between Open Cycle and Closed Cycle?
Ophie's was coaxing. It takes more time in the combustion chamber to have a liquid of gas interaction like mixed together and unleashes much of their energy as you can before it exits the system. Closed cycles offers 10 to 15% greater performance generally because, you know, you're not wasting that propellant. But at the end of the day, full flow is by far the, it's the ultimate of all of them. You just spin up that thing as much as you need and deal with it, right? No big deal.
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