Epic testing change! Is spaceX's starship raptor engine

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Epic testing change! Is spaceX’s starship raptor is a graphical artwork created by an artificial intelligence model based on your prompt. It is not a real image of the SpaceX Starship or its Raptor engine, but a creative interpretation of what they might look like.

The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable spacecraft and second stage of the Starship launch system, which is designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. The Starship is powered by six Raptor engines, which are cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen (methalox) engines that use a full-flow staged combustion cycle. This means that they use all of the propellant to power the engine without wasting any of it. The Raptor engines have about three times the thrust of SpaceX’s Merlin 1D engines, which power the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets12

The Raptor engine is one of the most advanced rocket engines ever developed, and it has undergone several testing changes over the years. The first Raptor engine was tested in 2016 at SpaceX’s McGregor test site in Texas, and it achieved a chamber pressure of 300 bar (4,400 psi). The latest version of the Raptor engine, known as Raptor 3, was tested in 2023 at SpaceX’s Boca Chica site in Texas, and it achieved a record-breaking chamber pressure of 350 bar (5,100 psi).

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