NSF’s team of McGregor live stewards has also noted a steady stream of Raptor engines moving through the site, with the ...

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 message ...

An explosion occurred on Thursday at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, sending flames and a huge plume of smoke into the sky. Reports from NASASpaceflight, which runs a live stream of the ...

With the Raptor engine, SpaceX reimagined how rockets work—swapping kerosene for methane, adding dual cryogenic turbopumps, and implementing a full-flow staged combustion cycle never before flown in ...

In a recent post on X, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk shared a photo taken from beneath the Starship spacecraft that was ...

Elon Musk, it seems, had better things to do than watch football on Sunday. Early this morning, while much of America was sleeping off a dubious evening repast composed almost entirely of chip dip, ...

A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX’s McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it’s unlikely to affect the upcoming ...

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SpaceX is currently undergoing rigorous testing of its Raptor rocket engines, which will be used by the company's next-generation rocket, Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket. The ...

SpaceX launched its Starship mega-rocket for the seventh time on Thursday. It performed an epic booster catch for the second time, but the Starship exploded shortly after. The launch marked the first ...