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SpaceX Starship engine passes key test for Artemis

SpaceX Starship engine passes key test for Artemis 3 moon-landing mission

The Raptor engine showed it could fire in the extreme cold, which it will have to do on Artemis 3.

SpaceX has fired its powerful Starship engines in cold lunar-like conditions, to prepare for a human moon landing a few years from now.
SpaceX, which is tasked with bringing the Artemis 3 crew to the surface of the moon with Starship in 2025 or 2026, successfully wrapped up a "cold engine" start in August, NASA officials wrote in a blog post Thursday (Sept. 14). The test aimed to show that the company's Raptor engine can restart in space after leaving Earth, to safely carry astronauts to the moon's surface.

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