SpaceX’s Raptor engine and Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine are two key innovations in rocket propulsion, each with its unique design and performance characteristics. While the Raptor engine leverages ...
A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage around ...
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 ...