A new crew is officially on their way to the International Space Station, which means fellow astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who have been in space for 9 months now — are officially one ...

Discover how SpaceX is achieving the impossible: producing one Raptor engine every 24 hours. From rapid iteration and innovative materials to the McGregor testing facility, learn what makes this ...

The company also plans to once again reignite its Raptor engines in space to attempt an orbital burn – a crucial maneuver to one day bring a vehicle back to the ground. About 400 newly-hired ...

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 ...

Either way, these examples show it is possible to get more joy from the same engine. With everyday tasks in mind, the idea of tuning can shift from a distant thought to a friendly option for ...

According to SpaceX, there was a flash in the aft section, or “attic,” of Starship near one of its six Raptor engines about two minutes after the vehicle separated from the Super Heavy booster.

V12s have been the gold standard in the automotive industry ever since automakers started experimenting with them in the early 1900s. The 1931 Cadillac V-12 and 1936 Rolls-Royce Phantom III were ...

The Starship Super Heavy is a two-stage launch vehicle comprising the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft. Both stages are equipped with Raptor engines, which burn liquid methane and ...

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.

(Ship's six Raptor engines run on liquid methane and liquid oxygen.) The fires "eventually caused all but one of Starship’s engines to execute controlled shutdown sequences and ultimately led to ...