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by panick21_ 1517 days ago
> The Saturn V engines were scaled up V2 engines.

I mean, not really. They were a totally different cycle type. Different fuel. Different way adjusting trajectory. Different injectors.

Seems pretty different to me.

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Different cycle type? I'm interested - what's different?
I mean one uses the main propellant to drive the turbine the other has a sodium permanganate/hydrogen peroxide. That seems to me a pretty significant difference in how the engine works.

To be fair, technically one could call both gas generators but its still significantly different.

I'm sorry, but picking a different source of hot gas to drive the turbopump is not a conceptual difference. Just like adding nitrous injection to your car doesn't make it a conceptually different engine.