10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
...as little as six years. "This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the vehicle's three Raptor engines perform to the overall aerodynamic entry capabilities of the vehicle (including its body flaps) to how the vehicle...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...times the size of the Saturn V in terms of engine thrust and payload capacity. The interplanetary spacecraft which it ... not all based on artist’s impressions. This shows a successful Raptor engine test in September 2016. My first reaction, too, was to...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
... robust landing gear, capable of test flights up to 20 kilometres high. Starhopper is the first vehicle to use a SpaceX-designed Raptor engine burning cryogenic methane with liquid oxygen. The finished version will be much larger and will be composed...
19 April 2021
NASA picks SpaceX Human Lunar Lander for its Artemis programme
...systems, these agreed-upon standards range from areas of engineering, safety, health, and medical technical areas. “This ...to land on the Moon, leans on the company’s tested Raptor engines and flight heritage of the Falcon and Dragon vehicles. Starship...
