SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company’s Raptor engine – static-fired for the first time at full scale barely four days ago – has been successfully fired at roughly 90% max thrust, briefly producing more than twice the force of one of Falcon 9’s Merlin 1D engines. Relying on S...
China will be able to make more of its large-thrust rockets and at a faster pace because now it only takes two days to test the engines used in its liquid oxygen-kerosene rockets. The Sixth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporatio