Recently, I wondered what cutting-edge CAD solutions had made it into an application. Thus, I discovered a company that loudly announced the introduction of artificial intelligence into the design process and showed tangible results - Hyperganic.
Unfortunately, the big words about using AI turned out to be nothing more than a marketing ploy. Even on their page, they first mention that the product is related to algorithmic design. Although AI is mentioned in the following sections, in practice I did not find any traces of it in the Hyperganic Core product.
Like most liquid propellant rocket engines, the Raptor harness contains many components that control the engine’s operation. At the same time, with an increase in technical perfection, the number of strapping elements also increases. The high demand for these engines as part of the Starlink satellite deployment plan has contributed to the acceleration of their production. Part of the payment for speeding up production fell on the harness - designed initially exclusively for ground testing of early versions of the engine, it iteratively turned into a system suitable for flights with smaller dimensions and fewer connections.
