SpaceX Testing - SuperDraco Engine Firing

SpaceX successfully test fires SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in efforts to change the future of human spaceflight. These engines will power a revolutionary launch escape system that will make Dragon the safest spacecraft in history and enable it to land propulsively on Earth or another planet with pinpoint accuracy. In a series of tests conducted at SpaceX's Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, the SuperDraco sustained full duration, full thrust firing as well as a series of deep throttling demonstrations.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Super Draco
• SuperDraco
• testing
• engine
• SpaceX
• Dragon
• Falcon Heavy
• reusable
• Falcon 9
• launch
• NASA
• Space
• rockets
• exploration
• Merlin
• COTS

[SolX2Mars]

Solar System Express LLC will need some of these in 2017

[13burnie13]

i want this song!

[FukiageTaro]

That looks HOT!

[Animemasta2000]

im sooo gonna put that engine on my bike!!!

[spellground]

there are three completely different types of technologies going on here on planet earth that Im aware of - first we have the technology that they show and tell us, then we have all the  top secret technology, and finally there is the technology that not even the people working on the top secret technology know about ! the type of technology that we would find hard to even comprehend

[sloooo5m]

Amazing technology :')

[godzilloid]

I want one

[eHonkey]

Who did the soundtrack?

[Goprodigy]

Wow !



[youhakin]

Huuuu!!! Yeah baby!! That's the type of engine we need for next space launch!