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Stoke Space's Andromeda 2 engine is incredibly unique. It's a single engine which feeds 24 thrusters around an actively cooled heatshield allowing the second stage to reenter engines first. It's also designed to operate in both sea level and vacuum conditions.

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nova upper stage I parody1 year ago

the most incredibly designed rocket ever conceived. change my mind

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Drifter3211 year ago

Is it not a major flaw that 1 engine does everything? I seem to think this could be a problem…

Booster 101 year ago

Having 1 engine on the second stage is very common. Falcon 9 only has one engine on the second stage and it's the world's most reliable rocket.

Saving The Pets1 year ago

I CANT WAIT FOR THIS ROCKET TO BE DONE

Joe1 year ago

Fascinating! Hope it gets a chance to do a flight test.

Daniel Parker1 year ago

How protected does a camera have to be to withstand that much heat? 😮

Booster 101 year ago

More than the one in this video was lol.

Daniel Parker1 year ago

Dang!

Bitroaster1 year ago

Build this! Based on @PERRY_RHODAN

Joel Shepherd Author1 year ago

If looks count for anything, it's a winner.

Moonsteaders1 year ago

@SpaceHaxx this?

Vinamra1 year ago

nozels would be better word to describe

Booster 101 year ago

I agree but Stoke calls them thrusters so I'll do the same.

Kevin Widner1 year ago

That poor camera…

Jay1 year ago

I don't understand. This is an engine? It looks like a freaking space ship from the movies. Pretty cool looking.

llehctim leihcim1 year ago

The Cameraman made it... YEEEHAAA!! SEE! Proof once more... 📸🧍‍♂️🛟🧬

Steven Van Dyke1 year ago

Can you turn individual thrusters on/off and/or aim them for directional/attitude control?

Booster 101 year ago

They can choose which ones to fire which is useful for stuff like landing the second stage on the moon. The thrusters can also be individually throttled and they use the differential thrust from that for attitude control.

Steven Van Dyke1 year ago

Cool! Hope you get it flying soon. Have you considered doing something like the original SpaceX Hopper? Just enough to let you go up and come back down and then build from there.

Booster 101 year ago

They did a hop test with an earlier version of the engine in 2023.

Steven Van Dyke1 year ago

Love it! Get some legs from @steveMmattison and see if you can touch the sky!

Nerd_1 year ago

Wow

Matt1 year ago

POV you're Paladin Danse

Kevin A Vandriel1 year ago

Aerospikish. Doing what Arca space couldn’t.

Craig Bleakley1 year ago

Love it. Put it on a 2000 ton booster, and we are off to Mars

Nina Barry1 year ago

Doesn’t matter what its configuration is love, if it doesn’t fly.

Patryn1 year ago

What’s the engineering trade off?

Flight1 year ago

It's a shame it's not a SpaceX engine. Otherwise this post would be in everyone's feed.

Tommy Weiss1 year ago

I can't wait to see if this technique or the tiles end up winning the reentry wars.

Zero1 year ago

I actually really want to see if this thing can fly. They do some pretty cool work, and it looks like it should work too. Would be awesome to have some very different designs working since everything is quite similar right now other than their fuel.

Imaginative Drift1 year ago

Its neat i wonder how the concept scales and what scale is optimal

Bob Carter1 year ago

Put a teacher on it and launch already

Paul Marks1 year ago

Crew Dragon was meant to have been capable of propulsive landings with something like this, but they could not work out how to stick landing legs through the heat shield. And NASA certification would have taken too long. So parachutes it was.

MadO1 year ago

Do you know why Starship has so many engines? Redundancy.

c1c2c3c4c1 year ago

@ckindel That's not unique is been done before, they also found out it was unsafe to do.

butwhywait1 year ago

Bullish on stoke's design

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