A deep dive into a legendary rocket engine test that took all the best elements of Kerbal Space Program, Portal and Doom. The Rocketdyne tripropellant engine, tested for NASA in the late 1960's may very well be the most dangerous chemical engine ever tested.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexandertheok
3D animation by Artem Tatarchenko:
https://www.instagram.com/artem.iskustvo/
Intro sequence inspired by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtXPLOlVtcg
Sources:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rzsbq41bbgsg4m89054ei/triprop-sources.ods?rlkey=izhcau6bmztssfwy3mz16srvm&st=dhals9le&dl=0
Playlist of all the public domain video sources used:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI2UlFg4eJTFfUCI6BfuWwLvTu5pYJnzW
Channel showing videos of relevant reactions:
https://youtube.com/@Fluorineisgreat
Source for the Rocketdyne VHS clips:
https://youtube.com/@Dutchsteammachine
Tutorial I used to make the nice looking bar chart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKKcB1Mg2Q
00:00 Intro
01:46 Overview and Background
05:58 Reaction Chemistry
14:12 Engine Configuration
18:50 Testing
31:00 Environmental Impacts
36:14 Spaceflight Applications
41:54 Real Life Applications
50:30 Extremely '90s Outro