Elon Musk's huge update on raptor 2 and the real reason SpaceX produces Raptor so fast

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Elon Musk's huge update on raptor 2 and the real reason SpaceX produces Raptor so fast

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk once claimed that his biggest concern is to get people to Mars before he dies.
He elaborated on his extremely ambitious plans to establish a sustainable settlement on Mars:
“A thousand [Starships] will be needed to create a sustainable Mars city as the planets align only once every two years."
That is why he hastened the production of rockets, first of all, the rocket engines.
And despite its complexity, SpaceX is developing the Raptor 2 engine at ludicrous speed.
But, why exactly are they doing this?
Let’s find out in today’s episode of Great SpaceX!

It could be said that the development process of SpaceX's Raptor engine itself can also be regarded as an engineering miracle within the industry.
Its speed and frequent iterations are beyond the reach of competitors.
According to Musk's February Starship update, SpaceX now only needs 24 hours to create 1 Raptor 2 engine. This rate is more than twice as fast compared to Raptor 1's production speed!!!
“We're close to achieving um one rafter to everyday production rate so seven a week”.
With that crazy rate, SpaceX's Raptor 2.0 crushed rocket engines produced in the world!
Need proof???
Well, Blue Origin is needless to say, lord delay!!!
And although the speed of Russian missile production is unknown, we are sure it cannot pass this 24-hour mark!
ULA even doesn't have any competitive edge over SpaceX in this aspect as it has never attempted to develop a rocket engine since 2006.
And now, it's too late!!!
In short, SpaceX is in another league!!!
Elon Musk's huge update on raptor 2 and the real reason SpaceX produces Raptor so fast
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To be resolved, thank you.

[NCF]

The guts to fail, but the innovation to succeed.

[robertwood]

Elon has never said he can build an engine in twenty four hours; producing one engine every twenty four hours is not the same thing. Each engine and its parts will take a lot longer than twenty four hours to progress down the production line.

[anodominate]

If RAPTOR 2.0 is beating most of the engine in the market then What the RAPTOR 3.0 will do.

[DontScareTheFish]

"producing one per day" for raptor engines is a very different statement than the "only needs 24 hours to create 1 Raptor" that you said.
If I have an assembly line and a thing comes off the line every day it does not mean that it only took a day to build that thing.

[dazuk]

There is a very simple reason why spacex had to make the raptor. Getting to Mars will use every bit of fuel you have so you have to be able to produce your own to have any chance of getting back. We know there is methane and water ice on Mars but no oil as far as we know...which is what you need to make RP1. So methalox it had to be.

[jrb_sland]

Twenty-one years ago an associate & I were commissioned to design & fabricate an instrument to fly on a small Canadian science satellite. One of the higher-ups in the food chain questioned my reputation for wanting to go immediately to a first prototype. I explained that I wanted to find my errors & fix them ASAP. He grumbled, but saw my point. Real hardware reveals the truth much more reliably than computer models ever will. I take great comfort in Elon Musk's similar attitude. To paraphrase Dennis Hopper in 1979's movie "Apocalypse Now" : "...he is a big man, I am a little man..."

[dienocrown]

every time i see his new intervention's i truly believe we are going to moon and mars he is striving and pushing to get the best engine ever to make the trip safe and fast as needed keep up the great work just fantastic as always., but then again that is the ELON way.

[ThomasEWalker]

Raptor 2 is nothing short of awesome! What an amazing step up!

[gandalfgreyhame]

This rapid building, testing, and fixing of problems was a hallmark of the best of aircraft designers during WWII, and was the reason that North American rapidly developed the P-51 into a war-winning aircraft while Curtiss-Wright was unable to develop anything better beyond its P-40, and was also the reason that the Merlin engine had multiple variants that progressively increased power output and performance until it was superceded by the Griffon, while Allison made only minor changes to variants of its V-1710 and never developed anything better.

[ThomasLee]

I worked for an aircraft/missile instrumentation company. I would bet, with his success, that Elon has one heck of an instrumentation configuration on his rockets. I wonder how he monitors the telemetry. is it by radio or is he using starlink?

[joeybulford]

Just checking, did they stop the raptor 2 from melting on the launch pad?

[noahgossett]

I imagine the next version of raptor will be the size of the f1 but also full flow. That would be the holy grail of chemical rocketry

[bazoo]

6:25 - "Failure is not an option" was misattributed to Gene Kranz when he and his crew were trying (and succeeded) to bring the crew of crippled Apollo 13 back home alive. He never said that - that would be insulting to marvelous people who pulled the impossible.
NASA is the giant on whose shoulders SpaceX, Blue Origin and everybody else in the US space industry stands. They innovated so slowly, that they took almost _eight years_ from the first suborbital "spam in the can" flight of Alan Shepard to the boots on the Moon. SpaceX was founded *20* years ago. Just saying.

[peterwysoczanski]

any update on the melting problem they had with the Raptor 2?

[shanewalker]

best quote is
at least the crater was in the right place

[bobdobbs]

If the same innovation and focus was used in the development of the Thorium reactor design the world would be able to avoid the climate crisis, end oil wars and power millions of electric vehicles ... just a thought.

[johnmcque]

Getting to Mars should be a process. First build a travel capable space station. build it so people can live on it and work regularly help to build it. Then build on the moon station, practice there on how to build on Mars. By then we should have better space engines. Basically grow into Mars.

[seventone]

In Software Engineering Unit Testing we use a method called red to green shift.
You define the expected result and it first it will 100% fail. After you improve your code you get more near the expected test outcome (from red to green). If you do it right most Errors can be found before tbe product ships.I think Elon favors this method bc he is a Programmer and Engineer himself.

[geirvinje]

Elon know that to own innovastion, is to own the future.
Innovation is driven faster if you do mass production.
Every engine improve the solution a little bit.

[vail]

ULA will buy engines from SpaceX eventually if they are to stay competitive (which for now they are not even close).