How SpaceX Is raising Raptor’s sea-level thrust while holding engine mass steady
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SpaceX’s Raptor engine family has steadily increased sea-level thrust while simultaneously reducing mass, turning iterative engineering gains into substantially higher performance for the Super Heavy booster. CEO Elon Musk shed more light on how powerful Raptor 4 will be, and it’s pretty crazy. Raptor 1 delivered 185 metric tons of thrust at roughly 2,080 kilograms, […] The post How SpaceX Is raising Raptor’s sea-level thrust while holding engine mass steady appeared first on TESLARATI .
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