[AR] Re: Hyperganic uses AI to design a 3D-printed rocket engine

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:52:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Derek Lyons wrote:

... that's a big chunk of hardware to have printed in Inconel -- doesn't seem likely that somebody would do that just to show off...

They're a software company, they didn't do it just to show off.  They
did it to sell software.

That's what I meant. It's still a big lump of cash for a handful of advertising photos in which you can hardly tell Inconel from gray plastic. It would make more sense if somebody was planning to fire it and do heat-flow measurements (ideally ones that would show a real advantage!).

Henry

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