Monday, 4 February 2019

SpaceX fires up its Starship Raptor engine

SpaceX test fires a flight version of its Raptor engine for the first time

Lifting all the pieces needed to colonize Mars off the face off the Earth is going to involve some serious firepower, and SpaceX has just tested out an important piece of the puzzle. A flight version of the Raptor engine that will serve as a primary building block for the company's Starship spacecraft was engaged for the first time today, as it targets the first grasshopper test flights in the coming months.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2MNr1ox

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