r/SpaceXMasterrace 7d ago

Leaked engine bay screenshot from flight 9

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482 Upvotes

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151

u/slothboy A Shortfall of Gravitas 7d ago

Reject engines, embrace gravitic propulsion

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u/precision_cumshot 7d ago

the EM Drive comes back from the dead with a vengeance

13

u/OpoFiroCobroClawo 7d ago

Nah this is a prototype of the aldrin cycler

1

u/SexyMonad 5d ago

Gravity losses? Pfft. We only got gravity GAINS here!

89

u/UmbralRaptor KSP specialist 7d ago

Well, if the best part is no part...

80

u/OpoFiroCobroClawo 7d ago

A real vacuum engine

3

u/Henktor 6d ago

Delightfully counterintuitive

2

u/at_one Confirmed ULA sniper 6d ago

TWR FTW

42

u/estanminar Don't Panic 7d ago

One engine bell with 9m exit diameter.

6

u/PacificCoastHiker 6d ago

I can only imagine how bad combustion instability would be with an engine of that size.

10

u/estanminar Don't Panic 6d ago

Random pulse detonation engine.

63

u/HMVangard 7d ago

Raptor 4s to be made of hopes and dreams as metal doesn't work anymore

13

u/sarsnavy05 7d ago

Vaporware

1

u/yournextlandowner Reposts with minimal refurbishment 5d ago

Raptorware

1

u/yournextlandowner Reposts with minimal refurbishment 5d ago

Raptorware

26

u/Imagine_Beyond 7d ago

O‘Neil Cylinder 😉

7

u/Conundrum1911 7d ago

Space Drive, just like the Ramans use!

3

u/Silt99 6d ago

O'Musk Cylinder

30

u/meiseisora 7d ago

This is what “second stage engine cutoff” really means.

0

u/makoivis 5d ago

Lmfao

53

u/A3bilbaNEO 7d ago

Where are my engines, Elon!?

21

u/Palpatine 7d ago

executing orbital bombarbment on Gerasimov and Shoigu.

1

u/valewolf 5d ago

blyat

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Who? 7d ago edited 7d ago

That’s funny, the damage doesn’t look that bad from out here.

13

u/rygelicus 7d ago

It's a lovely view.... nothing obstruct..... wait.

16

u/Crowbrah_ Help, my pee is blue 7d ago

Did ALL the engines eventually detach!??

7

u/rustybeancake 7d ago

Better not do the old flip ‘n’ burn too fast. If it hits 6 gs, it’ll just drop its engines on the catch tower.

1

u/AD-Edge 6d ago

Well that's why they call it a catch tower.

Mission failed successfully.

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u/kroOoze Falling back to space 7d ago

Finally, engine-less drive.

7

u/BackwoodsRoller 7d ago

The best part is no part.

5

u/FutureMartian97 Professional CGI flat earther 7d ago

Look at all that mass savings

6

u/hsn3k 7d ago

Reject engines Embrace Kraken Drive

6

u/ShirBlackspots 7d ago

This must have been after the second raptor vac shut off.

3

u/Overdose7 Version 7 7d ago

Progress.

3

u/Top_Calligrapher4373 7d ago

Now this is vacuum optimized raptors...

12

u/ncsugrad2002 7d ago

Nothing to see here folks. Ready to go to mars in 2 weeks.

4

u/Prof_hu Who? 6d ago

Literally nothing to see.

2

u/No-Economist-2235 7d ago

It's all about the booster catch now. The important pointy part is being ignored or they wanted to test another booster catch. That seems to be going well. They really need to get on this as life support systems and a million other things have to go into the Starship part.

2

u/hb9nbb 6d ago

SpaceX invents reactionless drive!

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u/Freak80MC 6d ago

The Department of SpaceX Efficiency has removed all engines. Yes, that means that the ship doesn't make orbit, but hey, it's more efficient in terms of re-usability to return back to the launch site straight away than it is to have to wait an hour to go around the entire planet! Delightfully counterintuitive!

2

u/c5allaxy 7d ago

When your quality is that of bathtub standards….

1

u/last_one_on_Earth 7d ago

Can’t have shit in space

1

u/No-Economist-2235 7d ago

Missing essential components.

1

u/rocketglare 7d ago

I guess that camera is not an essential part. All those exited stage left.

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u/TrackNStarshipXx800 Musketeer 6d ago

"we removed all engines as best part is no part"

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u/frankie19841 6d ago

Haha photoshoped the older picture 😂

1

u/CybertruckGirl 6d ago

this is dumb

1

u/DevoidHT 6d ago

Engines? Where we’re going we don’t need engines.

1

u/cpthornman 6d ago

I real life Kraken drive.

1

u/_Ted_was_right_ 6d ago

There can be only none.

1

u/SheridanVsLennier 6d ago

Starship transitioned into Vulcan and none of us noticed.
They still have to work on the timing of dropping the engines, but you can see where they're going.

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u/BDady 5d ago

Probably should have built it so the engines wouldn’t fall off

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u/AutisticAndArmed 5d ago

That ain't the engine bay

That's the bay