SpaceX Raptor 3 is an improved and more powerful rocket enigine. It has reached 350 bar of pressure and 269 tons of thrust. Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently ...

A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX’s McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it’s unlikely to affect the upcoming ...

Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

It's clear that with SpaceX, Elon Musk wants to push the boundaries of space travel, even if every project isn't a success. Despite scrapping 100 Starlink satellites, there are plenty of important ...

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. According to NASASpaceflight, the engine had an ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the Raptor engine of its Starship launch vehicle is not perfect and needs a few more changes. What Happened: “Still a few final touches to perfect Raptor,” ...

I would be surprised if they're using spark plugs and not plasma injectors or glow plugs. Those two things don't foul as easily as the small gap in a spark plug. Click to expand... And yet the J-2 ...

It may seem like we’re crawling to get there, but the first-ever orbital flight of the SpaceX Starship is now closer than ever. And we’re pretty sure that's so, because Elon Musk bragged about it on ...

While the color of the plume is important, I'd argue that the ignition process and thermoacoustics are really the far more important things to test on early fires. Those area are, at best, black arts ...