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Elon Musk said that the SpaceX engine was ahead of the Russian RD-180 in terms of pressure in the combustion chamber
The head of the company believes that Raptor will open the way to interplanetary travel.
The Raptor engine, which will be installed on the interplanetary spacecraft Starship , is ahead of the Russian RD-180 in terms of pressure in the combustion chamber. The head of SpaceX wrote about this on Twitter on February 11.
to According NPO Energomash, the pressure in the combustion chamber of the RD-180 is 266.7 bar. Previously, Musk called the design of the Russian engine “brilliant” and announced plans to exceed its performance.
On February 4, the head of the company published a video of the first successful test of the Raptor engine, with which Elon plans to send humanity to explore Mars.
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