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General Discussion => Q&A Section => Topic started by: AS_501 on 02/10/2023 12:10 am
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After watching the SH static fire, I realized a boatload of telemetry is transmitted from 30+ engines (same with FH). Is there some kind of industry standard that defines the number of monitored engine parameters and telemetry channels? For example, a Level 1 Telemetry Standard specifies "X" number (minimum) of parameters and channels, while a Level 2 Standard specifies "Y" parameters and channels, etc.
I'm curious how current engines compare (RS-25, Raptor, BE-4 etc.) in their range of telemetry measurements. I'm assuming RS-25 has the most(?)
Thanks!
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no standard. Up to each launch vehicle developer.
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After watching the SH static fire, I realized a boatload of telemetry is transmitted from 30+ engines (same with FH). Is there some kind of industry standard that defines the number of monitored engine parameters and telemetry channels? For example, a Level 1 Telemetry Standard specifies "X" number (minimum) of parameters and channels, while a Level 2 Standard specifies "Y" parameters and channels, etc.
I'm curious how current engines compare (RS-25, Raptor, BE-4 etc.) in their range of telemetry measurements. I'm assuming RS-25 has the most(?)
Thanks!
Definitely not - nobody designs very many types of rocket engines (compared, to, say, cars), and honestly there aren’t that many designs in total even globally, plus there’s a lot of relative secrecy - so there’s no incentive for this sort of standard. Car engines *sort of* do, but even there it’s not “this engine has level [X] monitoring”, they just have or dont have sensors in various according to the manufacturers desired amount of monitoring.