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Video: SpaceX first fired a vacuum version of the Raptor engine for Starship – Phone Mantra
An important part of the new SpaceX Starship spacecraft has passed the first test. This is a version of the conventional Raptor engine for use in space vacuum. It successfully passed the
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The vacuum Raptor passed this test about three weeks after it left the SpaceX rocket factory in Los Angeles – on September 4, SpaceX announced that the new engine had been delivered to a Texas test site. In a tweet, the company described the firing tests as complete. It’s unclear how long the burn lasted: the tweet only includes a 15-second video that dims to black while the vacuum Raptor is still running.
This variant of the Raptor is similar to the conventional version of the engine b…
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