SpaceX shared a new video Thursday night of its Starship rocket firing an attached Raptor vacuum engine for the first time. The Raptor vacuum engine is a variant of SpaceX’s Raptor engine which is ...

Alliant Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen (LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber. The successful ignition test was designed to ...

SpaceX has notched up another milestone in the development of Starship, fixing its Raptor Vacuum engine to the spacecraft and test-firing it for the first time. This marks another important step in ...

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the combined power of Starship‘s multiple Raptor engines will generate a thrust of 19.5 million pounds for the massive rocket. What Happened: Musk ...

In preparation of landing humans on the Moon as part of the ongoing Artemis program, SpaceX recently ran a test of one of its lunar lander engines while simulating the cold temperatures of space. The ...