May 11, 2024

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Elon Musk shows off new SpaceX rocket engines for Starship. Twitter fans see Daleks.

Space.com

By k

Elon Musk seems pretty proud of his company SpaceX’s new rocket engines. 

This week, Musk showed off a batch of the new Raptor 2 engines at the SpaceX‘s Starbase facility in Texas, where they will be used on the first orbital flight of the company’s Starship megarocket later this year. 

“Raptor 2 rocket engines at Starbase, each producing over half a million pounds (230 tons) of force,” Musk wrote in the Twitter post on Tuesday (April 26). Musk’s photo showed what appeared to be over a dozen of the new rocket engines, but his Twitter fans saw something else: evil Daleks from Doctor Who.