Meco

Dannie here, maker of a gamified engineering tool for you to learn about 🚀 engine design. Unleash your inner rocket scientist💥 Follow my journey here!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Miku, your mentor at Mecodyne, leaves a note: do not press Run Test. You press Run Test. A real engine spins up, the graphs start moving, and that is your first day on the job.

[Lavie Ohana 🛰️ @lavie154]

got some new tooling, so finally back to the liquid rocket project! this is the business end, more or less.

one piece = aft N2O bulkhead, N2O valve housing, e85/fuel manifold, injector, and N2O fill inlet

trying my best to not mess it up lol

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@lavie154 N20 tickles me 🤣But seriously, good choice.

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@stoke_space @julia_bergeron I love cinematic engine test fires!

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

Sound🔊on: epic fly-by footage of the ongoing Zenith engine testing and Stage 1 structural qualifications happening at our test site in Moses Lake. 🤘🚀

[Stan 🇪🇺 @stan_maximin]

I almost broke my hand while celebrating this 🤕

Because on the 13th of May, after 6 months of relentlessly trying to find the right process to light up the engine with its turbopump, we finally did it right.

Not once, but multiple times. With reproducible results.
1/2

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@DJSnM I noticed it too

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Miku, your mentor at Mecodyne, leaves a note: do not press Run Test. You press Run Test. A real engine spins up, the graphs start moving, and that is your first day on the job.

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Thanks for the likes!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Miku, your mentor at Mecodyne, leaves a note: do not press Run Test. You press Run Test. A real engine spins up, the graphs start moving, and that is your first day on the job.

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@Matt_Lowne Nice

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@cosmictylxr 🙀

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@ID_AA_Carmack Insightful. Thanks for sharing!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@Truthful_ast Agree!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@sulaimanghori Glad you found it that way 😅

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@ahtavarasm_us 🚀🚀🚀

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Rocket science anyone?

[Astro @astronautnr7]

This is awesome

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@astronautnr7 Of course!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@sbarky38 I don't see why not

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@DibzNr @StarCobShipSon 🤣

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

@Xoey80239413 Absolutely!

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Your first dozen designs fail in interesting ways: red graphs, exceeded margins, the engine throwing a tantrum on the test stand. Then a self-sustaining turbopump picks its own speed and you just hope it picked a good one. That's where you learn.

[Meco @RocketSimulator]

Three ways to play: work the missions, an engineering ladder with tongue-in-cheek safety hazards. Free-build on an empty canvas with live graphs. Or recreate real hardware like the Merlin 1D and the F-1, same components, same physics.