SpaceX and NASA's Crew-10 mission took off in a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday, March 14 ...

But on the Flight 8 launch preparation, they talked about saving 1 metric ton of mass per Raptor 3 engine. This must be mass beyond the engine to related components simplifications. This means about ...

One Raptor (200 tons thrust) is slightly insufficient, while two Raptors (400 tons) provide excess thrust, yielding a ratio of 400 / 264 ≈ 1.52, which is reasonable for an upper stage. There are more ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is continuing to burn bridges with the space community. One former astronaut is even challenging him to step foot in a rocket himself — a cutting dig at Musk, since even ...

Pratt & Whitney has secured a contract valued at up to $1.5 billion for the maintenance and support of F119 engines powering the US Air Force’s F-22 Raptor fighter jets. The RTX subsidiary explained ...

The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

Two NASA astronauts who launched on a short mission to the International Space Station last year that turned into a 10-month marathon finally know when they'll be coming home. The Boeing Starliner ...

Elon Musk suggests the US government should increase its spending efficiency similar to the advancements in SpaceX’s Raptor engines. In alignment with President Trump, Musk announced a new ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on June 1, 2024.

The two astronauts who in June flew to orbit on the Boeing Starliner's first crewed flight test are poised to at long last return to Earth this month. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's highly ...

Most recently, the military's attention turned to the plane's engines, the F119s made by Pratt & Whitney. The Raptor has two of them, and they can generate a combined 70,000 pounds of thrust.