A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX’s McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it’s unlikely to affect the upcoming ...

Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

SpaceX Raptor 3 is an improved and more powerful rocket enigine. It has reached 350 bar of pressure and 269 tons of thrust. Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently ...

A SpaceX testing stand at the company's McGregor, Texas facilities went up in flames during a test of its Raptor 2 engines on the afternoon of May 23. According to NASASpaceflight, the engine had an ...

Humankind's first Space Race began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik) into orbit around Earth. The unparalleled and exponential explosion of ...

It's clear that with SpaceX, Elon Musk wants to push the boundaries of space travel, even if every project isn't a success. Despite scrapping 100 Starlink satellites, there are plenty of important ...

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 ...

I would be surprised if they're using spark plugs and not plasma injectors or glow plugs. Those two things don't foul as easily as the small gap in a spark plug. Click to expand... And yet the J-2 ...

While the color of the plume is important, I'd argue that the ignition process and thermoacoustics are really the far more important things to test on early fires. Those area are, at best, black arts ...