48+ Spacex New Rocket Engine Pictures. Right on schedule, a spacex falcon 9 rocket has successfully lifted off on the company's operational nasa astronaut launch debut, sending four crew members on their way to the international space station (iss) in a historic moment for commercial spaceflight. Elon musk posted videos of spacex's new raptor rocket engine firing.

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Spacex tested their raptor rocket engine and it reached the power level needed for launching the starship that elon musk says will take up to one hundred people to mars. Spacex designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The new engines have surpassed a rocketry record held by russian scientists and engineers for more than two decades.

Spacex has shipped a raptor, its next generation rocket engine, to its test site in macgregor, texas, company president gwynne shotwell said today during the small satellite conference in logan, utah.

The new engine will soon be incorporated into the company's falcon 9 rocket, officials said. The explosion, first reported by the washington post, occurred on saturday but the company only confirmed the engine failure on wednesday. Private space industry company reveals new engine. Spacex designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.