Magnetar Space
@MagnetarSpace
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Rocketry development group designing, building, and testing liquid rocket engines.
Joined April 2022
A dual shaft configuration lets us individually validate each pump before coupling them together. First one up for testing will be our fuel pump.
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Fuel pump shaft assembly built as more parts continue to roll in for the fuel turbopump.
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The turbine is what provides the power to turbopumps and is essential to their operation. This is the turbine for the fuel half of our dual shaft turbopump assembly.
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Now there’s two of them?? The design of our dual shaft kerosene-LOX turbopump is nearing completion with some components even beginning to be manufactured🚀
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Compilation of the various tests our smaller development test stand has seen over the past year🔥
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RT @ryanpappano: Final regen igniter firing of the semester at Zucrow Labs. Clean 11 second duration stress test, draining the RP-1 tank to….
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Update: During multiple hot fire attempts we ran out of both time and daylight so after a third and final attempt, all systems worked together, but a faulty igniter lead to ignition failure. Amazing effort from the team, lots of data collected and more testing to come later🔥
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TARS injector water flow. Huge thanks to @launcher for sponsoring these injectors and 3D printing them out of copper alloy, excited for the hot fire next week!
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Hot fire alert: Our team is traveling out to west Texas next week to attempt to fire our sub scale 1000 lbf liquid oxygen-liquid kerosene rocket engine TARS-1🔥
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RT @ryanpappano: First successful test of a super cool project for a super cool company that I’ll talk about more in the near future… https….
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Finished post machining both injectors. Next up, water flow tests, integration, and hot fire
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RT @launcher: Going next level with our goals and resources. Thank you @vast and @JedMcCaleb for welcoming our customers, team, and product….
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Our heat sink TARS-1.1 chamber is designed to be able to take some abuse during initial testing of ignition timings before moving to test the ablative chamber🔥
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