-
competition between countries was
dubbed the
Methalox Race to Orbit, with the LandSpace's Zhuque-2
methalox rocket becoming the
first to
reach orbit. As...
- 2016
developed the
Raptor methane rocket engine and
after 2020, a line of
methalox thrusters. In the
first ten
years of SpaceX, led by
engineer Tom Mueller...
-
methane (
methalox) and was the
first methane-fueled
rocket to
reach orbit. Zhuque-2 has a
liftoff weight of 216
tonnes and uses 4 TQ-12
methalox engines...
- by
cryogenic liquid methane and
liquid oxygen, a
combination known as
methalox. SpaceX's super-heavy-lift
Starship uses
Raptor engines in its
Super Heavy...
- gas-generator
cycle rocket engine burning liquid methane and
liquid oxygen (
methalox)
developed by LandSpace. TQ-12 is the
first Chinese liquid rocket engine...
-
support the hydrolox,
methalox and
storable propellant engines that are used.
There are
three test
cells for
testing the
methalox BE-4 engine, two of which...
-
landing on the Moon in over 50 years. It is the
first spacecraft to use
methalox propulsion to
navigate between the
Earth and the Moon. The
second Nova-C...
- use
liquid methane and
liquid oxygen (
methalox)
propulsion beyond low-Earth orbit, and also the
first methalox spacecraft to land on an off-world celestial...
- the mid-2000s, SpaceX's
flight capable methalox Raptor engine first test-fired in
February 2019, and the
methalox engine developed for the
first stage of...
-
company plans to use 7 full-flow
staged combustion rocket engines,
burning methalox. The
second stage will use a
hydrolox (liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen) engine...
