F1 Rocket Engine Blueprints
The f 1 engine remains the highest thrust rocket engine that nasa has ever flown 15 million pounds of thrust.
F1 rocket engine blueprints. By 1961 functional f 1 engines were being tested at edwards air force base on huge oil derrick sized platforms made to withstand over 2 million pounds of rocket thrust. The liquid fueled engine was used during the apollo program and sat at the bottom of the saturn v. The test of engine 2059 at stennis space center on march 10. The first f 1 engines flew.
The f 1 rocket engines are on display at the national air and space museum in the apollo to the moon exhibit. It is a single start engine producing 1500000 pounds of fixed thrust via the biopropellant mixture of rp 1 kerosene and liquid oxygen which equates to approximately 32 million bhp. How nasa brought the monstrous f 1 moon rocket engine back to life the story of young engineers who resurrected an engine nearly twice their age. Lee hutchinson apr 15 2013 100 am utc.
Engine 2059 is reaching for new heights as an engine that flew on a hubble servicing mission engine 2059 has already been higher than the average flight of an rs 25. Manufactured by the rocketdyne division of north american aviation the f 1 remains to this day the most powerful rocket engine yet built. Hubble orbits earth at an altitude of about 350 miles more than 100 miles higher than the average orbit of the. The f 1 engine the most powerful single nozzle liquid fueled rocket engine ever developed boosted the saturn v rocket off the launch pad and on to the moon during nasas apollo program during the 1960s and 1970s.