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

Watch how powerful a SpaceX Raptor engine looks while conducting a long duration test fire at a 15 degree gimbal. Views of ...

SpaceX performed the first full-fledged static fire test of its upcoming Starship megarocket on Thursday, but not every Raptor engine took part in the important exercise. Update: 4:40 p.m. ET: The ...

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 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.

The company hoped to fire all 33 Raptor engines at once, but Elon Musk noted that two engines didn't make it — the mission team shut off one before startup, while the other "stopped itself." ...

The Raptor engine showed it could fire in the extreme cold, which it will have to do on Artemis 3. SpaceX has fired its powerful Starship engines in cold lunar-like conditions, to prepare for a ...

SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell said Wednesday that tomorrow SpaceX will perform a full “static fire” test, during which SpaceX will ignite all 33 Raptor 2 engines on the Super Heavy booster at once. If no ...

The test happened on August 8 at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, according to a company tweet.Ground teams completed a single Raptor engine static fire test as the 227-foot-tall ...

Booster 7 generated 7.9 million pounds of thrust during the 31-engine static fire on Feb. 9, 2023 — quite a bit, certainly, but less than half the vehicle's full thrust capability, according to ...

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 ...