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WalterBright on Jan 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt

I would hope that it would have improved over the last 80 years :-/

The V2 had other foundational inventions - the ballistic missile shape, and the gyroscopic guidance system.

WalterBright on Jan 14, 2022 [–]

I forgot to add that they also added baffles to prevent pogoing, a technique that persisted at least into the Saturn V engines.

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