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Rocket engines take three major iterations to become mature products
“And I always said it took three versions of Merlin to get it to be really tight. And it took three versions also of Raptor. I always say it takes really three, three iterations to get to a really, really tight product and Raptor's there.”
Tom Mueller Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 25:08 Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Tom Mueller Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 14:34 Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Properly designed composite pressure vessels weigh half as much as titanium
“So a properly designed COPE will be about half the mass of a state-of-the-art, all metallic tank, like a titanium spacecraft sphere. The carbon's so much stronger, it'll actually be about half the weight.”
Tom Mueller Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 15:43 Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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