Rocket Engine
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Founder's Journal 
No Priors 
Sourcery 
How I Built This
4 statements about Rocket Engine, every show
Isaiah Taylor: Nuclear fission reactors are significantly less complex than rocket engines
“It's nuclear, but it's like significantly less complicated than a rocket engine, for example.”
Mueller calls 3D printing a "cheat code" for rocket engines
“For rocket engines, it's almost like a cheat code. It's so easy to make a high performance rocket engine with three D printing. Because the rocket injectors and the cooling passages are pretty small and complex. So to make a rocket engine by machining and asse…”
Bezos: Rotating machines and turbopumps gain efficiency at larger sizes
“All rotating machines, in fact, get more efficient as they get larger. So really tiny turbo pumps are very challenging to manufacture and any kind of gaps, you know are like between the housing, for example, and the rotating impeller that pressurizes the fuel,…”