The Raptor demonstrator turbomachinery is capable of producing 27MW of power, with more power “per unit of thrust” of any hydrocarbon engine. It also demonstrates the use of 3D printing, with ...

The Raptor engine is being built for SpaceX’s Starship rocket, which is designed to be a fully-reusable launch system. ... I bought my husband a 3D printer for fun.

SpaceX has shipped its next generation Raptor rocket engine to its test site in MacGregor, Texas. The Raptor engine, which will be powered by liquid methane and oxygen, is expected to be three times ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Blue Origin announced the BE-4 in 2014, they announced that it was the most powerful Methalox-burning engine ever conceived. Compared to the first version of the Raptor, which was the only ...

SpaceX also finished a milestone effort for Raptor in November 2021, NASA wrote, showing that the engine can fire for 281 seconds (4.5 minutes), the duration needed for the long descent to the moon.