saturn V engines are enormously powerful
merlins arent nearly as forceful, and thus smaller (also why they need 9 of them on any falcon 9 to achieve ~26 tons into space or something...SaturnV sent up 115tons)
fucking insane
merlins arent nearly as forceful, and thus smaller (also why they need 9 of them on any falcon 9 to achieve ~26 tons into space or something...SaturnV sent up 115tons)
The base Falcon 9 is a two stage, LOX/RP-1 powered launch vehicle. Its first stage is powered by nine SpaceX Merlin 1C rocket engines with 125,000 lbf sea level thrust per engine for a total thrust on liftoff of just over 1.1 million lbf.
one engine, 1.5 million pounds of thrustThe F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne and used in the Saturn V. Five F-1 engines were used in the S-IC first stage of each Saturn V, which served as the main launch vehicle in the Apollo program. The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine developed[1] (the RD-170 is more powerful but it has 4 chambers).[2
Each F-1 engine had more thrust than all three space shuttle main engines combined.
fucking insane
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