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

The SpaceX Raptor engine already enables the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship to have more than double the thrust of the Saturn V. Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography talked about the SpaceX 1337 having ...

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 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 ...

To put this into perspective, the Raptor 2 rocket engine produces approximately 510,000 pounds of thrust. This is almost identical to the amount of thrust produced by the RS-25 engine that will be ...

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 ...

SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. “Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,” SpaceX said in a ...

Musk recently shared video footage in February of a Raptor test firing, saying the engine had achieved the power level needed for Starship and Super Heavy. SpaceX hopes to use the combination to ...

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 ...

The Raptor engines are designed to get the next-generation Starship into orbit. But SpaceX is looking well beyond Earth and has its eyes on the moon and eventual journeys to Mars.

The Raptor engine is obviously quite powerful, but even SpaceX’s smaller “Star Hopper” test ship will require three of them to push it skyward.