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In April 2024, Musk shared the performance achieved by SpaceX with the Raptor 1 engine (sea level 185 t f, Rvac 200 t f) and Raptor 2 engine (sea level 230 t f, Rvac 258 t f) along with the target specifications for the upcoming Raptor 3 (sea level 280 t f, Rvac 306 t f) [50] [51] and said SpaceX would aim to ultimately achieve over 330 tonnes ...
This page is an incomplete list of orbital rocket engine data and specifications ... Raptor [30] USA: SpaceX: ... [31] 350 [33] 1,525 [31] 184 [31] 3.6 [34] Raptor ...
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]
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [17] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [6] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [18] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [19] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
The forthcoming engine currently under development by SpaceX has been named "Raptor". Raptor will use liquid methane as a fuel, and was stated as having a sea-level thrust of 6,700 kilonewtons (1,500,000 lbf). [59]
According to SpaceX engine development head Tom Mueller, SpaceX could use nine Raptor engines on a single MCT booster or spacecraft. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The preliminary design would be at least 10 meters (33 ft) in diameter, and was expected to have up to three cores totaling at least 27 booster engines.
One of S30's Raptor Vacuum engines was replaced on August 3, [178] and it was rolled back to Massey's on August 6, [179] where it conducted a spin prime test on August 7. [180] SpaceX claimed that Booster 12 (B12) and S30 were ready to fly on August 8. [180] S30 was then rolled back to the production site. [181] On September 21, S30 was lifted ...
The first engine failure occurred at T+7:39 when a center engine shut down, [16] followed by the failure of a second center engine at T+8:02 and an adjacent outer Raptor Vacuum engine (RVac) at T+8:04. At T+8:18, another outer RVac shut down, and by T+8:24, the last gimbaling center engine had failed.