SpaceX Starship Raptor Engine breaks Russian rocketry record held for two decades SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company’s Raptor engine, meant to power Starship and Super Heavy, has surpassed a rocketry record held by Russian scientists and engineers for more than two decades. Known as combustion chamber pressure, Raptor has reportedly surpassed a modern Russian engine known as the RD-180, reaching forces equivalent to one Tesla Model 3 balanced on every square inch of Raptor’s combustion chamber, the hardware directly adjacent to a rocket engine’s bell-shaped nozzle. Keeping that in mind, in this video, Engineering Today will discuss about combustion chamber pressure of SpaceX Raptor engine as well as Russian, R D-1 80. Why Elon Musk think, Raptor can truly outperform the R D-1 80 in near future? Let’s get into details.