The Insane Engineering Behind The SpaceX Starship #starship #space #spacex #space
To get humans to Mars, SpaceX is building the mighty Starship spacecraft, powered by the Raptor engine - one of the first to be powered by methane and designed to be re-used 1,000 times. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has his mindset on going to Mars. To do so will require a vast new spacecraft, powered by a new rocket engine, unlike anything that's been seen before. Step forward, Raptor, the future of SpaceX's endeavors. In this video, we look at the insane engineering behind the SpaceX Starship project. Let's get it on. Welcome back to our channel, If you haven’t already, make sure to hit that subscribe button and ring the bell, so that you get notified everytime we upload a new video!

Raptor is designed to power the new reusable vehicles SpaceX is building, the Starship spacecraft, and the Super Heavy rocket. Combined, these vast machines are designed to take up to 100 people into space, possibly to the Moon and Mars, with a tentative launch of humans around the Moon planned in 2023. SpaceX tested the first flight-ready version of Raptor in February 2019; it flew a Raptor for the first time on a "hop" test of a prototype of Starship, called Starhopper.