Just to understand how insane SpaceX’s Raptor 3 is, compare ONE engine with the RS-25 powering NASA’s SLS Raptor 3: ~617,000 lbf sea-level thrust ~1,525 kg ~3.1 m tall ~1.3 m wide RS-25: ~418,000 lbf sea-level thrust ~3,515 kg ~4.3 m tall ~2.4 m wide Raptor 3 is ~28% shorter, ~46% narrower and ~57% lighter… Yet ONE Raptor 3 produces nearly 50% MORE sea-level thrust That gives it roughly 3× the sea-level thrust-to-weight ratio That is an absurd amount of power packed into such a compact engine SpaceX made Raptor 3 more powerful, lighter, reusable and so radically simplified that when it was revealed, ULA CEO Tory Bruno thought it was a “partially assembled” engine It was the complete engine And then comes the ridiculous part… Super Heavy packs 33 Raptor 3s underneath ONE booster A wall of 33 engines producing roughly 20 million pounds of thrust One Raptor 3 is insane engineering 33 of them firing together is what turns Super Heavy into an absolute monster