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

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an apparent major setback for the program.

But SpaceX’s work doesn’t stop there, as there are plans to increase the power of the Raptor engines to an extent that will see the Super Heavy booster create an astonishing 23 million pounds ...

SpaceX not only shared the Raptor 3's specs, but it also shared those from the Raptor 1 and 2 so that you can see the growth in power and utility. The company did this across three units of ...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk showed off a photo and videos of the company test firing its new Raptor rocket engine in a series of tweets. The Raptor engine is being built for SpaceX’s ...

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.

— carson_phillips (@Cphillips_03) May 23, 2024 SpaceX has not yet commented on the incident, and it’s unclear if the blast caused any damage to the Raptor engine or the test stand.

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 ...

For comparison, the GEnx-2B Engine that powers a Boeing 747-8 creates 66,500 lb of thrust compared to the 507,063 pound-force from each Raptor engine. However, the SpaceX propulsion team didn't ...

Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines lit up during IFT-2. (Source: SpaceX / Twitter (X)) During the recent Satellite 2024 conference in Washington on March 19, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said ...