SpaceX test-fire of Mars spaceship's flight engine is milestone for its engine development
by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Feb 05, 2019
3 minutes
In the latest sign of SpaceX's continuing progress on its Mars spaceship program, Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company has test-fired the Starship's Raptor flight engine for the first time.
The two-second test fire at SpaceX's McGregor, Texas, test facility, which Musk announced via Twitter on Sunday, marks a major coup for the Hawthorne company's rocket engine development. The Raptor engine uses a less conventional propellant than the Merlin engine SpaceX developed to power its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
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