🇺🇸 SPACEX SETS MULTIPLE RAPTOR 3 PERFORMANCE RECORDS SpaceX carried out 24 Raptor engine firings last week at its McGregor, Texas, test site, setting multiple performance records for the Starship program. A Raptor 3 achieved a 201-second burn, breaking the earlier 152-second and 180-second marks set just days apart. Engineers also completed a “torture test,” firing a single engine 13 times in succession to fine-tune relight reliability. New vacuum variants were seen on site, including Raptor 3 serial #8 from Elon’s May presentation, underscoring rapid progress toward deep-space readiness. Source: NASASpaceFlight