SpaceX’s New Raptor V3 Is Changing Starship's Design 

Man that raptor 3 engine is attractive. Can’t wait to see them fire.

Short, sweet, and to the point. I like your presentation style.

Raptor V3 will be a huge improvement from V2! Really looking forward to seeing them in use on a Starship!

The raptor three model looks unsettlingly simple

I believe the 10 tons of “heat shield” is more the result of needing prevent a single engine RUD from taking out its neighbors, and potentially so on and so on. Raptor 3 is supposed to survive RUD without firing pieces of shrapnel everywhere. That seems like a hard thing to validate to me, give all the different and violent ways a rocket engine can explode. It’s not such a big deal until they try to human rate Starship. SpaceX are proposing no launch escape system, so the booster and ship (and therefore the Raptors) must be incredibly reliable.

love your end of vid round up every time. great channel

Presumably the cows at 5:07 are there to produce Starship methane?

Thanks Man!

We will have to wait and see how it progress and the impact it has on the space industry. Thank you very much for posting.

He was told at the start not to use methane , It's all new tech ,,just go with the usual,,, H2 leaks , helium runs up walls, ,,3rd version is powerful,and quick an easy to build ,,, The stainless steel use proved itself too..

I am just impatiently waiting for starship 5 launch,OMG that last one was amazing. Im hoping to see a hard landing very soon eapecially of that booster rocket. We are seeing history in the making with this starship. Im 44 now and i could see a human going to mars before i leave this world.

V2 is impressive

Those cows running for their lives 05:08

great video quality as always, some constructive criticism from me though would be maybe looking into reducing that white noise every time you talk, its not really annoying but i found it a little distracting sometimes, have a nice day :) Edit: I've gone and listened to it on my phone and the noise isn't audible, i guess you can only hear it on pc

💫 happy birthday 0:30

As I see it - and maybe seeing what I want to see rather than reality - even more recent Raptor 2s have been incredibly reliable. We can't know all the details but discounting IFT-1 I'd say it's entirely possible that out of 117 engines (3 flights with 33+6 Raptors each) there might well have been only a single failure that is down to the engine - the one that shut down almost immediately after OLM booster ignition on IFT-4. It's entirely possible that all the other failures (and maybe even that first IFT-4 failure) were down to issues further upstream (fuel slosh, clogged filters or other issues that weren't actually in the engine itself). Obviously all those non-engine issues are critical to identify and fix but the more of the failures that we have seen in the IFTs that were upstream issues rather than engine issues does bode very well for where SpaceX is already at re engine reliability.

Just to put it into perspective, Raptor 3 at $250,000 will cost LESS than many small jet and turbo prop engines!

thnx

Call me a sceptic, but removing safeties like shielding between engines sounds reckless. Also, the continued engine failures don't instill confidence. Maybe continue to push the engine to extremes for the sake of a few percent performance is not the way forawrd?

So does that 10+ ton weight saving from removing the current fire suppression behind the heat shields involve the removal of those huge CO2 tanks housed in 2 of the very long chines on the booster? If yes then not only is that a good weight saving but I would think that it will also be a very useful cost and time optimisation when building a booster. Those huge CO2 cylinders are I believe manufactured elsewhere and trucked to Boca so that's probably a relatively costly component and then when you see them being fitted to a booster in a Megabay it looks like a pretty serious lift (2 lifts actually - one for each cylinder) that probably needs a lot of prep (making space, establishing bigger-that-usual health and safety exclusion zones because of the swept space taken to lift the cylinder from horizontal to vertical etc). It's probably a Megabay operation akin to installing a methane downcomer so getting rid of those CO2 cylinders entirely would be nice for the production process too.

Im still curious to what and when will be the first payload ! So many things happening so quickly ! Most likely a load simulator or a bunch of starlink satillites !

When is the 35 engine booster coming?

I love how Elon's company does engineering!

"We've got more Raptors than we know what to do with". What a coincidence, Boeing has more Starliners than they know what to do with. 🤣

I think the catch tower should be a tall platform with a hole in the middle.

Up to test flight 5, these are v1, no?

These sites are something, either soulless AI bot voiceover with mangled words and grammar, or maybe real guy reading too fast, and monotne

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The Raptor V3 is going places. Can't wait to see some videos of it. But at the same time it pains me to see how much fuel is required for each start. It doesn't help our efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and I can't afford a ticket on a rocket.

Great topic but I can't handle your reading .You dont separate your words making it hard to understand ! Learn how to read !

Again, excellent video much appreciated with the worst narrative (presumably AI) ever. Can’t you please do something about that?

Casual reminder that Starship V.1 was supposed to carry 100 tons to orbit but has only ever flown empty and the entire program has already expended more rocket engines than the entire shuttle program did over decades of flight, even factoring in their two vehicle losses.

Casual reminder that SpaceX the longest-running private space flight company and still hasn't launched a single payload outside of LEO.

Starship is funny. Just like the Cybertruck, it feels like a vehicle Musk actually did have a lot of input in, which is why it is absolute dog shit.

33 engines and now we find out from Enron Musk that the thing can only lift into orbit 40-50 tons instead of of the original 100 tons that he originally claimed … what an absolute fuck up!

That's not the new Raptor design💩

Raptor engine runs on liquid methane aka liquified farts.

Just face it. It is Space Shuttle 2.0. And it is going to have the same fate. Exactly same idea just different form.