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

Felix Schlang, dives deep into the technology of the SpaceX Raptor 3 engine. SpaceX has made new alloys for withstanding ... His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many ...

The Raptor has a reputation as the powerhouse in SpaceX's arsenal, as it offers significantly more thrust than the company's smaller but reputedly more reliable engine, the Merlin -- among other ...

SpaceX successfully caught its Super Heavy booster for the second time. During Starship’s 7th test flight from Boca Chica, ...

Starship's previous six test flights occurred in April and November of 2023 and March, June, October and November of last ...

Key to SpaceX’s Martian exploits is likely to be a new engine known as the Raptor. Raptor would provide a major sea-change in SpaceX’s propulsion, given it is set to be powered by methane and ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. SpaceX has shipped a Raptor engine to its base in Texas for testing, marking a key step forward in the company's goal to colonize Mars. The Raptor is capable of ...

SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship ... For Thursday's flight, major test objectives included restarting a Raptor engine in space and the deployment of 10 dummy Starlink mockups to ...

Starship is scheduled to lift off Monday at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) from Starbase, SpaceX 's manufacturing and launch site in ...

SpaceX is preparing for the seventh flight test of the Starship vehicle on Monday afternoon from Starbase in Boca Chica near ...