Elon Musk SpaceX Targets Less Than $1000 per Ton Force Raptor Engine

Elon Musk says the SpaceX Raptor engine must be 10X decrease value. Order of magnitude change is nice motive for a brand new title. He says what actually issues will not be one more “superior” rocket engine. There has by no means been an affordable (lower than $1000/Ton-force) rocket engine.

The SpaceX Raptor engine can have about 250 tons of pressure. This implies the engines are at the moment about $2-2.5 million and can attain $250,000 or much less.

The SpaceX Tremendous Heavy can have about 29-33 engines and the Starship can have 7 engines. The price of all the engines for a whole SpaceX Tremendous Heavy Starship will probably be lower than $10 million. At the moment, the price of all the engines is about $100 million.

This engine must be 10X decrease value. Order of magnitude change is nice motive for a brand new title.

What actually issues will not be one more “superior” rocket engine, as there are a lot of such units, however there has by no means been an affordable (<$1000/Ton-force) rocket engine. Not even shut

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2021

SOURCES- Elon Musk, Wikipedia


Written by Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com