SpaceX’s first biblical starship engine just caught fire – Sprout Wired

Less than three weeks after being shipped to Texas, SpaceX says Starship’s first Raptor vacuum engine has completed a “full-term test fire” in March for brim test flights.
Known as the Raptor Vacuum or Arvic, the engine is based almost entirely on the sea floor-friendly cousin, all the complex turbomachine and combustion chambers that make up the bulk of a rocket engine. Things begin to move down the throat of the combustion chamber (the narrowest part, like the central bell), where SpaceX has …

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