SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. “Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,” SpaceX said in a ...

After leaving PayPal in 2000 with $180M, Elon Musk launched Tesla and SpaceX to innovate electric cars and Mars-bound rockets ...

The Crew-10 mission is soaring toward the ISS, with a team of astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Their spacecraft will dock after a 28.5-hour journey, propelled by the Falcon 9 rocket’s ...

Advertisement SpaceX said there are several safety measures ... 8 mission failure Thursday and said only that some of six Merlin engines that power the rocket appeared to have shut down mid ...

The flight was uncrewed, CNN reported. “Once you lose enough of those center engines, you’re going to lose attitude control,” SpaceX communications manager, Dan Huot said, according to CNN.

For the second flight test, SpaceX engineers designed a more robust and secure launchpad able to handle the incredible force generated by the Raptor engines as the Starship lifted off. Once ...

As for the recent footage released by SpaceX, I didn't think it was possible to capture the ignition of the 33 Raptor engines from beneath the booster, given the intense temperatures, especially ...

It has the most engines ever in a rocket booster: The Super Heavy booster is powered by 33 of SpaceX’s Raptor engines. As those engines lift Starship off the launchpad, they will generate 16 ...