With the Raptor engine, SpaceX reimagined how rockets work—swapping kerosene for methane, adding dual cryogenic turbopumps, ...

SpaceX’s Raptor engine isn’t just a bigger, badder rocket booster—it’s the cornerstone of Elon Musk’s plan to colonize Mars.

The Raptor 3 boasts a thrust of 280 tf, a specific impulse of 350s, and an engine mass of 1525 kg. The SpaceX Raptor 3 engine has potential to exceed 300 tons of thrust in future iterations, ...

SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says "This, by the way, is very high on their top risk list." Eric Berger – Nov 2, 2022 10:11 am | 398 ...

SpaceX has test-fired its Starship vehicle with Raptor engines before, of course. In some prototype test flights, the vehicle has ascended up to about 10 km under the power of up to three Raptor ...

Elon Musk described continued improvement of the Raptor 3 engine beyond levels reported in May. The Saturn V rocket generated 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds) of thrust. A 20 million pound ...

The new Raptor 3 has a 280tf thrust, a 350s specific impulse, and an engine mass of 1525kg. This shows that SpaceX has managed to give the Raptor 3 a significant boost in thrust and reduce its ...

Elon Musk said SpaceX successfully tested its Raptor rocket engine that might one day be used to transport people to Mars. SpaceX “achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport ...

SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Starship spacecraft Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. Skip to main content Menu ...

A SpaceX testing stand at the company's McGregor, Texas facilities went up in flames during a test of its Raptor 2 engines on the afternoon of May 23.

SpaceX has notched up another milestone in its efforts to reach Mars by fixing its Raptor Vacuum engine to the Starship spacecraft and test-firing it for the first time. This larger engine variant ...

This booster prototype has 33 of SpaceX’s large Raptor engines on board, and the test was specifically designed to spin up the engines for a preview of what the startup sequence would look like ...