{"id":125673,"date":"2025-09-01T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125673\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:01:09","slug":"33-hungry-spacex-raptors-from-below-photo-of-the-day-for-sept-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125673\/","title":{"rendered":"33 hungry SpaceX Raptors from below photo of the day for Sept. 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX<\/a> has worked to revolutionize the spaceflight industry, mainly through developing reusable rockets that can land and fly again. This includes the company’s Falcon 9 rocket<\/a>, which has become the workhorse of global launches, ferrying cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station<\/a> under contracts with NASA<\/a>, among many other tasks.<\/p>\n

But beyond the Falcon 9, SpaceX has been developing its Starship<\/a> megarocket, which is designed to carry massive payloads and large crews on deep-space missions to the moon,<\/a> Mars<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n

What is it?<\/p>\n

In a recent post on X<\/a>, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk<\/a> shared a photo taken from beneath the Starship spacecraft that was being prepped to launch on the vehicle’s 10th test flight. (That flight occurred on Aug. 26<\/a>, and it went well.)<\/p>\n

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The photo shows the 33 Raptor engines<\/a> of Super Heavy, Starship’s first stage, arranged in a dense circular pattern. Musk added in a separate post:<\/a> “33 engines, each more than twice the power of all 4 engines on a 747.”<\/p>\n

Where is it?<\/p>\n

This photograph was taken at SpaceX’s Starbase <\/a>site in South Texas, near Boca Chica, where the Starship system is built and tested.<\/p>\n

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A photo taken underneath Super Heavy, the first stage of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, showing its many Raptor engines. (Image credit: Elon Musk via X.)Why is it amazing?<\/p>\n

Packing 33 engines into a single stage presents some intense engineering challenges. Each Raptor engine must fire in perfect synchronization, maintaining stability during launch while withstanding extreme forces and vibrations.<\/p>\n

As if this weren’t ambitious enough, Musk added the following in a thread<\/a> on his original post: “Starship V4 will have 42 engines when 3 more Raptors are added to a significantly longer ship. That will fly in 2027.” With more engines providing additional thrust, systems like Starship can carry heavier payloads, making deep-space travel more achievable.<\/p>\n

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