# Weekly Space Report: New Raptor!

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-new-raptor/4820>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Created:** [3 August 2024 13:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-new-raptor/4820 "2024-08-03T13:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/pturmel/32/111_2.png) [@pturmel](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [3 August 2024 13:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-new-raptor/4820/1 "2024-08-03T13:34:44Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/d/2/d213e79ca463adecfd6c3b10836fe2080394023d.jpeg "SpaceX’s Starship Future Revealed and Raptor V3 Engine Finally Unveiled!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTRu3Lu30U)

Highlights:

- First Raptor V3 on display

- Ship 30 tiles

- Lots of future flight parts moving around

- Tower Two section five in place, section six ready to lift

- Flight 5 tentatively late August

- New launch site layout and features revealed by an FAA draft evironmental impact report

- Starlinks 9-3, 10-4, 9-4, 10-6

- Dragon recovery moving to the West Coast

- Starliner on day 59 of its one-week flight. Positive test this past week? No decision.

- Rocket Lab Owl for One, One for Owl

- Rocket Lab Blue and Gold mission

- ULA’s final Atlas 5 mission for the US military

- ULA Vulcan flight planned for early September

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**Author:** ![jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/jabowery/32/5478_2.png) [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\
**Post date:** [28 July 2025 17:25 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-new-raptor/4820/2 "2025-07-28T17:25:18Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LwygXNl9z2k/maxresdefault.jpg "TOO COMPLEX! Elon Musk revealed Why SpaceX Raptor Facing Hard Inside Problem...") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwygXNl9z2k)

I suppose it may be time to reiterate the design Roger Gregory and I came up with which had under 10 parts.

> [@“Turning Point—The Story of Bearings”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/turning-point-the-story-of-bearings/2105/7):
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> Bearings were a major concern in the our [ultracentrifugal rocket engine](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/ula-releases-photo-of-blue-origin-be-4-flight-engine-1-for-vulcan-rocket/1773/4). Magnetic bearings would have been nice but we stuck with ceramics for simplicity’s sake. However, Gary Hudson’s suggestion that we use magnetic confinement of the engine to minimize rotating mass within a structure robust enough to contain the equivalent of an exploding clutch is, essentially, a really powerful magnetic bearing. While it may be reasonable to discount the mass somewhat due to its dual function of explosi…

Of course, just like Raptor-3, it had some issues on startup:

 ![image](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/5/6/56e3e057ca439568af953de4dda6d3ec4dbe0f0b.jpeg)