Capturing Mars is Elon’s most imminent desire, and while efforts to turn his dream into reality are clearly disappointing, overnight billionaire Musk is struggling to set a new record with regard to rocket engine development, and Even though he created SpaceX, a fast-growing space company, which took him further.
A hectic decision to send the giant Starship rocket to the moon A single component has been a nightmare the company has been struggling to overcome for more than a decade: the Raptor engine, although SpaceX successfully launched Starship into space in April. 20th Unfortunately, Raptor 2 broke our hearts, although fans were happy during the explosion.
The Raptor engine observation had become a point of controversy for SpaceX, but as engineers worked to change the story, Haven found the Raptor 1 engine was not burning completely. Cryogenic fuel therefore reduced efficiency, then Raptor 2 was introduced, Raptor 2 was actually a boon for Starship development on the ground, until we saw Raptor 2 explode during the first Starship launch on April 20.
Engineers had to go back to the drawing board again and move fast, now they have discovered a new method to put efficiency and absolute reliability on the Raptor 3 engine, the next Starship engine that is set to dominate the space industry How SpaceX will grow and what changes were made to Raptor 2 that made it worthy of a suitable Raptor 3.
SpaceX Raptor 3 If you think that SpaceX made the wrong decision of making another model of Raptor engine, then you can call it the third generation of Raptor engine because if you take a picture of the Raptor engine, it shows the burning of cryogenic propellant. Makes everything amazing by increasing the speed of it. SpaceX hasn’t had much luck with this dangerous thing. And stabilizing it will force you to ask yourself how SpaceX fits it all in with pipes and lines.
You won’t be able to wrap your head around it, the Raptor Engine really works and it’s perfect for understanding why it’s so important to develop a beast called the Raptor Engine with thinking calculations and decision making, that’s why That SpaceX couldn’t get it going on the first attempt is no doubt a major reason for the failure in the company’s progress toward reaching the Moon, hence the launch of SpaceX Raptor 3. Multiple versions of the engine to optimize efficiency, the SpaceX Raptor 3 engine is now the boss of all rocket engines in the space industry, including the blue or preferred engine.
The Raptor 3 engine was confirmed to reach approximately 18 percent more thrust than the Raptor 2 during the test firing process due to the B4. Raptor 2 had 25 percent more thrust than Raptor and was 20 percent lighter, this new invention is welcome as SpaceX aims to reduce unnecessary parts and also reduce the weight of the Raptor engine.
An improved and more powerful rocket engine, this Raptor 3 thrust reaches 350 bar pressure and 269 tons of thrust and this is quite insane compared to the engine parameters other SpaceX competitors can claim that the Raptor engine achieved in SpaceX’s Merlin 1D. The thrust of the engine has almost tripled. That powers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, we actually didn’t have a bad version of the Raptor 2 engine, but they couldn’t get the thrust that SpaceX wanted, they were getting 500 to 10,000 pounds of thrust consistently, which SpaceX was eyeing.
The cost was £550,000 after changing the engine parameters, plus it was cost-effective as Musk had already confirmed that the production cost of the Raptor 2 engine was about half that of the Raptor 1 version that SpaceX developed between 2018 and 2018. Finally in June 2022 Musk tweeted that the target of 250 tons is achievable and that is a matter of pride, on the other hand amidst all this praise, the downside was that the Raptor 2 engine was produced in hundreds of thousands.
At the time Elon said their goal was to produce 100 Raptor 2 engines per week, although at this time no one could make concrete claims that mass production could actually produce 100 Raptor engines a week. But if that’s the case then Elon Musk has shot himself in the foot by losing money in the process of mass producing Raptor 2. The remaining Raptor 2’s manufactured will be condemned, they will likely be upgraded to a new Raptor 3 version.
Now would not be the right time to pledge that there will be no other versions of the Raptor engine in the future after the upgrade. This is part of the engineering processes to increase system performance, but we should expect a version of the Raptor 5 engine in the future, you know it’s just as much fun and then the Raptor 3 more than lives up to all that hype that came with the first The bar was shown on Raptor 2. So this is a golden change through which SpaceX will conquer the skies.
Although that doesn’t actually mean that Elon thinks he’s doing something new and really cool that Bezos won’t know about and others won’t know about until it’s been around for years. SpaceX is trying to beat the matrix and they have adopted an engineering process that surpasses Blue Origins with successful launches and gets it into orbit faster, how are they able to engineer this in less time and What is their engineering strategy behind its truth?
While SpaceX doesn’t have any better engineering access to smarter people than its competitors, Blue Origin has a human management structure and innovation that encourages risk-taking, Elon Musk clearly says. came forward when he said that the penalty for trying something innovative and failing is low, but the penalty for needing a new solution and not being innovative is high, which usually results in a person losing their job or being fired by a company. If the contract is lost, SpaceX is famous for being nimble enough to make major design changes on the back end.
Design example in the first phase of Starship construction SpaceX relied on carbon fiber for the design of the Starship body, but can you imagine that when they rejected carbon fiber as a design material they still recruited fiber engineers It tells us that SpaceX is famous for taking a rapid design approach that doesn’t give you any idea about what the final product will look like, you’ll just follow the design goals so you can build a component.
This won’t be needed until the final stages of development, this frees people up to focus on practical designs, which are too important to be determined theoretically and the system will evolve over time in a very organic process. Finally the KISS principle Elon Musk likes the KISS principle which says keep it simple and silly, even though he has repeatedly said that the best design is no design and the best component is no component, by this he means that Any part of the system has already been specifically designed in a computer-aided version.
This is not a necessary requirement for the system to work, so it should not be designed to live practically, this means that the final product is more dependent on good design than mere complexity and unnecessary hidden details. More Money The SpaceX founder has already replicated a five-step process to speed up rocket engine development, which first involves breaking the requirements into steps and simplifying them.
It walks you through a five-step process of his favorite word that he uses as a construction. They are less imprecise; secondly, placing the responsibility for developing the listed requirements not in a department, but in a unit, means that once you have reached the desired result you cannot simply abandon an opportunity, the engineer then considers its validity. We all make mistakes at some point and no specifications can be considered watertight, the third removes any unclear parts or processes, then reevaluates the system.
Fourth, speeding up the time spent on each design, fifth and finally automating the process, these design principles are foolproof processes used to reach powerful Raptors with greater thrust, made cheaply in large quantities And simple prototypes that were literally built to be destroyed but are still an important question to ask. Do you think there will come a time when Musk can build Starships and launch them all into space.
Like a space station that’s big enough to house builders and starships that can land there or maybe even a lighter version of a warp type engine. If Elon Musk can properly configure and turn on AI, he could have robots that would build star ships and then the essence of the crew would go out and observe the progress of the starship and if he is successful then perhaps other spaceships. Stations that can hold more equipment and possibly even an operational space station that will be mobile can be built. So that engineers can go out and blow off steam and then go back to starship stations and help build starships.