SpaceX has test fired the updated Raptor engine designed for its Starship rocket. Three Raptors will be fixed to a Starship for low altitude tests later in the end of 2018; the final version of the rocket will have seven of the engines with a further 31 on a booster. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he wanted the Starship to reach the moon with paying passengers, that the Raptors had been “radically redesigned” and used methane and liquid oxygen.
SpaceX has test fired the updated Raptor engine designed for its Starship rocket. Three Raptors will be fixed to a Starship for low altitude tests later in 2019; the final version of the rocket will have seven of the engines with a further 31 on a booster. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he wanted the Starship to reach the moon with paying passengers, that the Raptors had been “radically redesigned” and used methane and liquid oxygen.