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SpaceX NEW Raptor Engine Design CHANGES EVERYTHING!
One most amazing fact from the spaceX is that Elon Musk is making Raptor rockets at a rate of about one every 48 hours. This is exciting to know right? Let us today talk about raptor enignes. If you are new to our channel we encourage you to like this video and subscribe to our channel and hit the bell icon to never miss an update from the world of spaceX.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, stated on Saturday that his company is capable of producing a Raptor rocket engine every 48 hours.
Musk stated on Twitter, “Raptor manufacturing is reaching one per 48 hours.”
The interplanetary transport engines, unveiled in 2016 and capable of producing 500,000 pounds of thrust, are critical to SpaceX’s plans to assist NASA in returning to the moon and ultimately to Mars.
The “crazy power” of the Raptor is planned to power SpaceX’s Starship, which will be the next lunar lander.
NASA selected SpaceX as its lone partner for the Artemis lunar mission in April. However, the contract work was halted in late April pending a review by the Government Accountability Office in response to a protest from another bidder led by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space exploration business.
Musk stated in another tweet on Saturday that SpaceX’s Starship vehicle will be powered in its booster stage by 29 Raptor engines. This will increase to “32 later this year, as well as increased thrust per engine. Long-term goal is 7500 tonne thrust.”
Musk’s tweet came after Tim Dodd, the creator of the YouTube programme Everyday Astronaut, questioned whether rocket production was experiencing a “bit of a bottleneck.”
Some industry and government officials have raised concern about SpaceX prototypes exploding during test flights. Blue Origin expressed similar concerns on Twitter last week.
It can be impossible to write objectively about the rate at which SpaceX advances. The developments at the company’s Starbase location in South Texas are unprecedented.
Seriously, this is unprecedented.
On Sunday, SpaceX completed the stacking of “Booster 4,” the first of its Super Heavy rocket boosters to take flight. This is a gigantic, single-core rocket that stands over 70 metres tall and has a 9-meter diameter. It has roughly twice the thrust of the Saturn V rocket, which launched NASA humans to the Moon.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, something extraordinary occurred. Technicians and engineers at SpaceX’s construction site at Boca Chica Beach connected the rocket’s 29 Raptor rocket engines. There are a total of 29 engines. Each with its own set of complicated plumbing lines and connections. Although the final design is likely to have 33 engines, this is the number of engines that Super Heavy will fly with during early flight tests.
I’m not sure what to write or say about all of this, considering it usually takes a few days to install a single engine in the rocket business.
SpaceX is also nearing completion of “Ship 20,” the most recent Starship upper-stage prototype that will be mounted on top of Booster 4 for a full-stack launch of the Starship system.
While SpaceX has made significant progress in hardware, the company’s regulatory progress remains hazy. The quick development of Starship, its Super Heavy launcher, and the orbital launch complex in South Texas looks to be setting up yet another high-stakes battle between the FAA and SpaceX.
The business will be ready to fly, but there is no word on when the Federal Aviation Administration will complete its environmental evaluation of the Starbase location and allow orbital launches from the site.
SpaceX has been collaborating with the FAA on an environmental study for months. There will be at least a 30-day time for public input after a “draught” of this report is published. This will be followed by further processes, including as the FAA determining whether SpaceX’s proposed environmental mitigations are sufficient or whether more work is required.
Given all of this, it’s impossible to imagine SpaceX obtaining the necessary regulatory permits to launch Starship on an orbital test flight until the end of the year, if not sooner.
Despite this, SpaceX has apparently been staffing up in South Texas, bringing hundreds of people in from its California headquarters and abroad to finish assembling Booster 4 and the launch site facilities.
It appears to be a concerted effort to persuade the FAA to expedite the regulation procedure. The aesthetics of a finished rocket, by far the largest and most powerful in the world, sitting on a launch platform waiting for paperwork are not appealing. SpaceX may find partners elsewhere in the US government now that NASA and the US Department of Defense have a vested interest in Starship’s success.
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