View Spacex New Rocket Engine Pics. The new engines have surpassed a rocketry record held by russian scientists and engineers for more than two decades. Elon musk posted videos of spacex's new raptor rocket engine firing.

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Spacex is planning test flights of its starhopper rocket, which will eventually be powered by three raptors, for this summer. These flights will be short hops, a few thousand feet in the air above spacex's test site in texas. 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.

But how did these engines got their names?

Rocket engines from the merlin family, developed by spacex. Tom mueller has been designing rocket engines at spacex since the company was founded in 2002. The future of elon musk's company may ride on its unrivaled performance. Rocket engines from the merlin family, developed by spacex.