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SpaceX Raptor Engine
The SpaceX Raptor is a cryogenic staged combustion rocket engine intended to power the high-performance lower and upper stages for the Interplanetary Transport System. It has more than three times the thrust of SpaceX’s Merlin 1D engines propelling the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets and steps away from a Kerosene-based propellant.
Raptor consumes a combination of Liquid Methane and Liquid Oxygen in a Full-Flow Staged Combustion Cycle