SpaceX's most powerful rocket test
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SpaceX has shipped a Raptor engine to its base in Texas for testing, marking a key step forward in the company's goal to colonize Mars. The Raptor is capable of generating 500,000 pounds of thrust, which is around the same power as a space shuttle's engines. Produced by Brad Streicher. Original reporting Jessica Orwig. Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/tech_insider/ TUMBLR: http://techinsider.tumblr.com/
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Please. No more propaganda video like NASA did. You will lose the credibility.
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But so far SpaceX has not reused any of the engines from the rockets they have recovered.
Neither have they actually put any PEOPLE into space. -
Waste of time to expensive , but hell yeah go for it!!
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mark my word WHEN YOU HEAR BRAYDEN GRIFFIN ON THE NEWS REMEMBER THIS COMMENT
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what music?
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Good PR... but does this one not blow up?
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Ariane Espace > Space X
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While this is a big step. One of... if not the biggest issue with getting people to mars is radiation.
This is a good step though, quicker travel and is capable to holding more radiation shielding. Both of which should greatly dampen radiation exposed to people.
Not trying to put a buzzkill, just trying to be reasonable. Our next step is lighter shielding or ways to dealing with radiation all together. If we ever want to step food on Mars -
Dumb question: If the Saturn V produced like 7.6 Million pounds of thrust, why did that rocket only go to the moon like 250,000 miles away, and this one intends to go like 1. something billion miles away? edit: sorry that's Jupiter, it's 33.9 million miles
stages? payload weight? slingshot? -
Colinizing mars? Yeah massacre millions of aleins like what they did to the natives americans
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Looks impressive but lets keep things in perspective: The Saturn V motor (F1) generated 1,500,000 pounds of thrust... 60s technology still trumps 2016 tech :(
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what kind of coolen that engine had 😥
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why are the space shuttles engines a good comparison? do you mean all of the shuttles engines are equal to one raptor engine? Or what?
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This is great news, but holy smokes... a 1.5 minute video with old stock footage for what I could have read in plain text in 10 seconds? Played this at 2x speed and it was still painful.
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kind of striking SpaceX has only just now caught up with the Space Shuttle . . . and presumably Russian space rockets as well.
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People aren't stupid enough to believe this is real, are they?
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American government and corporations don't spend money on shit that brings no profit...pocketing the money and make the sheeple think that they going to mars makes money...
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the take off in the beginning looks like a movie...earth in the movie Gravity looked more real than nasa's videos and pictures so they can shove their videos and pictures up their asses
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every shot was of merlin engines
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I've got a felling 500k is a little low on what it will actually produce
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