Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted May 25, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted May 25, 2024 SpaceX Raptor engine test ends in a fiery ********** A SpaceX testing stand at the company’s McGregor, Texas facilities went up in flames during a test of its Raptor 2 engines on the afternoon of May 23. According to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , the engine had an anomaly that caused vapors to seep out and lead to a secondary **********. The news organization’s livestream showed the engine shutting down before the ***** started and eventually swallowed the stand in flames and smoke. SpaceX uses the Raptor engines for its Starship system’s Super Heavy booster and upper-stage spacecraft. They use liquid methane and liquid oxygen as fuel, and they were designed to be powerful enough to be able to send Starship to the moon and Mars. As This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up suggests, its gases mixing due to a ***** or a similar anomaly could’ve caused the **********, though SpaceX has yet to officially address what happened during testing. The company is currently preparing for Starship’s fourth test flight, which is scheduled to take place on June 5, pending regulatory approval and barring poor weather or other factors that could delay the launch. This ********** likely wouldn’t affect the flight’s launch window. SpaceX’s main goals for the fourth test flight are to make sure that the Super Heavy booster gets a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico and to achieve a controlled entry of the Starship spacecraft. The company said it made several hardware and software upgrades to incorporate what it learned from its third flight test. Starship’s upper stage reached space during that flight, but it This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in the atmosphere upon reentry, while its Super Heavy booster broke apart in the final phases of its descent instead of softly splashing down into the ocean. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up news, gear, test, Raptor, SpaceX #SpaceX #Raptor #engine #test #ends #fiery #********** This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/37674-spacex-raptor-engine-test-ends-in-a-fiery-explosion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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