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 ...

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 ...

Spacex fired up the first Raptor engine designed for the vacuum of space ahead of its future use on its Starship rockets. The Raptor Vacuum was recently shipped from the company’s California ...

SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. “Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,” SpaceX said in a message ...

Elon Musk says the next-generation Raptor engine that is robust enough not to require a heat shield. It will also have more thrust, higher Isp and many other improvements. Could make them faster, but ...

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WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The same type of engine that SpaceX hopes will one day rocket humans to Mars paraded through the streets of downtown McGregor, a rare sighting for the town where the company has ...

It's been several weeks since the SpaceX Mars rocket prototype has been waiting to take off in what will be its first orbital test flight at the company's Starbase facility, near the South Texas town ...

Obligatory, I'm not a rocket scientist/engineer. Hell, I'm not even a science graduate. My question is how exactly the test, tests, what is supposed to happen in vaccum, when it is done in atmosphere?

A few months ago SpaceX and Elon Musk were going to only make one version of the new Raptor engine for initial tests and flights but now Elon tweets that a vacuum optimized Raptor engine could be ...

SpaceX lit up the Texas coast again by firing an engine not designed for use on the ground. The company installed and performed a test burn one of its Raptor Vacuum engines for the first time attached ...

The Raptor, SpaceX’s rocket engine designed to send humans to Mars and beyond, is getting a sequel. Last week, CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that the company plans to build an engine known as “Raptor ...