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  • SPACEX STARSHIP’S RAPTOR ENGINE JUST REACHED ALL-NEW POWER LEVELS

    08/20/2020 7:13:56 AM PDT · by Shark24 · 46 replies
    Inverse ^ | Aug 20, 2020 | Inverse
    The Raptor, SpaceX's engine used to power the upcoming Starship, has been reaching new levels of power during its development. On Monday, CEO Elon Musk announced that the engine reached 330 bar of chamber pressure without exploding. That's 31 bar higher than what the engine achieved back in February 2019, when it beat the previous record-holder for an operational engine, Russia's RD-180. Teslarati noted that the engine beat the Soviet Union's RD-701 engine, which at 300 bar, previously held the public record for the highest combustion chamber pressure for an orbital-class rocket.