Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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I'm pretty sure its not running JP8 filtered or otherwise. The Falcon nine is but the starship runs Methane chilled to liquid and liquid oxygen. There is a lot less soot that way and it is a fuel that can be sourced on mars.

Frank


Yo thanks for the correction, both stages do use methane. That has got to be the cleanest and most hi tech fuel combo and feed system devised. Remember in the summer a Chinese SpaceX wannabe firm tried to launch a Falcon Superheavy copy, but it used highly reactive and toxic hypergolic fuel and solid ignitors and it blew up almost landing in a nearby village. Those orange fumes right before the explosion was hydrazine, absolutely nasty and carcinogenic stuff...
 
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Yo thanks for the correction, both stages do use methane. That has got to be the cleanest and most hi tech fuel combo and feed system devised. Remember in the summer a Chinese SpaceX wannabe firm tried to launch a Falcon Superheavy copy, but it used highly reactive and toxic hypergolic fuel and solid ignitors and it blew up almost landing in a nearby village. Those orange fumes right before the explosion was hydrazine, absolutely nasty and carcinogenic stuff...

You know it's nasty stuff when Uncle Sam pays you hazardous duty pay to work with it.
AMHIK.