SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company’s Raptor engine in his area has just passed a primary strain and set a world record.
The company plans to use six of the engines to, however, launch its huge Starship spacecraft, while a super-heavy thruster will likely want more than 40.
“The Raptor engine has just reached an ambient voltage of 330 bars exploding!”Musk said in a tweet Monday: That’s a lot of tension, even for a rocket engine, beating the previous record for the 1980s Soviet RD-701 engine, as Teslarati reports.
SpaceX will still have to result that the Raptor engine can burn long-lasting flights, and that it can be reused for the spacecraft.We also don’t know if the Raptor engine, in a Falcon Heavy booster configuration, can succeed in orbit.
According to Teslarati, SpaceX will want to especially increase the production of Raptor engines and see if they can strive for five to ten minutes.
Only one Raptor engine was used on the first flight of the first full-size prototype (SN5) prior to this month.
For the next test flight, the eighth large-scale spacecraft prototype, called SN8, will likely be tested at 3 of the engines up to a maximum altitude of 20 kilometres, compared to 150 metres of the SN5 test jump on August 4.2020.
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