{"id":187274,"date":"2024-04-12T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/spacex-slow-motion-video-shows-raptor-engine-shutting-down"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T19:24:13","slug":"spacex-slow-motion-video-shows-raptor-engine-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/spacex-slow-motion-video-shows-raptor-engine-shutting-down","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX slow-motion video shows Raptor engine shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-slow-motion-video-shows-raptor-engine-shutting-down2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,\u201d SpaceX said in a message accompanying the video (below). It added that the engine\u2019s nozzle \u201cis sized for use by Starship in the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere and outer space, so operation at sea level and low chamber pressures results in flow separation creating visible rings in the exhaust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. \u201cShutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,\u201d SpaceX said in a message accompanying the video (below). It added that the engine\u2019s nozzle \u201cis sized for use by Starship in the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}