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SpaceX Starship completed its second flight last week, and in doing so, it successfully fired up all 33 of its Raptor engines. Elon Musk recently uploaded footage of the launch that provides us with an up-close look at the Raptor engines.
SpaceX’s Raptor is the third rocket engine ever to be designed to use a full-flow staged-combustion-cycle, as well as the first of its kind to power a spacecraft. The liquid methane/oxygen fuel is also being used by many different companies such as Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine, as well as the Space Epoch’s Longyun-70, the latter of which has been described as a ‘mini Starship’.
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Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting second integrated flight test of Starship! Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation,” said the SpaceX team.
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