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SpaceX completed many static fire tests on a vehicle using Raptor 2s, including a 31 engine test (intended to be 33) on 9 February 2023, [59] and a 33 engine test on 25 August 2023. [60] During testing, more than 50 chambers melted, and more than 20 engines exploded. [31] SpaceX completed its first integrated flight test of Starship on 20 April ...
Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to celebrate the first-test fire of the SpaceX Raptor flight engine, which will be used on its next-gen rocket. The company's head honcho shared footage of the ...
The Raptor engine uses a full-flow staged combustion cycle with oxygen and methane-rich turbopumps. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Before 2014, only two full-flow staged-combustion rocket engine designs had advanced enough to undergo testing: the Soviet RD-270 project in the 1960s and the Aerojet Rocketdyne Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator in the mid-2000s. [ 29 ]
SpaceX CEO celebrated the first test firing of a full-scale, built-for-flight Raptor engine for his Starship super-rocket in the usual way tonight: by tweeting about it. "So proud of great work by ...
On July 11, after returning to OLM A for engine testing, B7 experienced a detonation underneath the engines during an attempted 33-engine spin prime test. [30] It returned to OLM A on August 4 with only the 20 outer Raptor engines, [ 31 ] and completed its first single-engine static fire test on August 9, followed by a second two days later. [ 32 ]
SpaceX has had five previous Starship test flights, starting in April 2023, with each test steadily resulting in progress. During the first two attempts, in April and November of last year, engine ...
When first mentioned by SpaceX in 2009, the term "Raptor" was applied exclusively to an upper stage engine concept. [2] SpaceX discussed in October 2013 that they intended to build a family of methane-based Raptor rocket engines, [16] initially announcing that the engine would achieve 2.94 meganewtons (661,000 lbf) vacuum thrust. [16]
“In 2025, SpaceX plans to undertake a long-duration flight test and a propellant transfer flight test,” according to a recent report from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, or OIG.