Rocket engine

The Raptor is a full-flow staged combustion engine developed by SpaceX. Learn how it works with this animated schematic!

As we advance our technology ever forward you would think that remaking a 50-year old design should be easy but things are not quite as s...

Three vintage bipropellant engines from the space race. Each of them was used for maneuvering in space, and each has a simple solenoid valve assembly, which allows the fuel and oxidizer to spray into the combustion chamber. These particularly noxious hypergolic chemicals have the valuable property that they ignite spontaneously upon contact, in a vacuum, with no spark required. From left to right: • Gemini SE-6, provided attitude and maneuvering control for the Gemini spacecraft. Pitch…

The story of young engineers who resurrected an engine nearly twice their age

Executor rocket engine.

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Image provided by Rocket CraftersRocket Crafters has concluded testing for the Comet 5,000-lb. thrust engine, a large-scale proof-of-concept test model of its...

SpaceX's new raptor engine is a methane fueled full flow staged combustion cycle engine and its so hard to develop, no engine like this has ever flown before!Now this topic can be really intimidating so in order to bring the Raptor engine into context, we’re going to do an overview of a few common types of rocket engine cycles then compare the Raptor to a few other common rocket engines, like SpaceX’s current work horse, the Merlin, The Space Shuttle’s RS-25, the RD-180, Blue Origin’s BE-4…