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by Denvercoder9 1792 days ago
> The most current passenger get engine, the GE9X - produces thrust levels close to the original Soyuz rocket.

That's off by an order of magnitude. The GE9X produces about 500 kN, while the original Soyuz produced about 4.5 MN at lift-off.

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Although I would pay to see a ge9x running on rocket proplant
It depends on what you exactly mean by rocket propellant. RP-1 is just refined kerosene and a GE9X won't really notice the difference.
Probably should have said soyuz rocket engine, my bad...though I guess it would have been more proper to say "one of the Vostok-K booster engines" of which there were four.

Or maybe GE is really stretching things and referring something other than the first stage engines.

https://www.ge.com/news/reports/its-official-guinness-world-...