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Old November 9th 09, 09:06 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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Default Falcon 9 Heavy vs. Soviet N-1

Anthony Frost wrote:

There's also a considerable difference between feeding 30 engines from
a single set of tanks and feeding each group of nine engines from its
own set of tanks. The more complex the plumbing, the more potential
problems there are.


N-1 plumbing was a complex and heavy mess with so many long pipes being
involved that it was almost begging for some pipe or weld seam to fail
under launch vibration.

Pat
 




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