Discover the SpaceX Raptor engine—a game-changing propulsion system that’s redefining space travel. With innovative full-flow ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

With the Raptor engine, SpaceX reimagined how rockets work—swapping kerosene for methane, adding dual cryogenic turbopumps, and implementing a full-flow staged combustion cycle never before flown in ...

SpaceX’s engine development and testing site in McGregor—the world’s most active rocket engine test facility—continues to be a hive of activity. Recent updates reveal intensified Raptor engine trials ...

SpaceX has ramped up its engine testing efforts at the McGregor test facility this past week, conducting a total of 24 Raptor engine firings and achieving multiple milestones in engine performance and ...

I don't know that it's a great engine. It's certainly a high-thrust engine. It's "just" an ORSC engine which is good, but not great. It's got a chamber pressure of 140 bar vs. a Raptor 2's pressure of ...

SpaceX will make a third attempt as early as May 27 to send a next-generation Starship vehicle into a suborbital test flight around Earth following the loss of two Starships earlier this year. In an ...