New SpaceX Starship Booster Has 29% More Thrust

By Brian Wang

The 35-engine SpaceX Starship booster using version 3 raptor engines is coming sooon. Booster 18 could be the first Version 3 booster.

35 Raptor 3 engines (280 tons of thrust each) will be 9800 tons of thrust. This is 29% more than 33 Raptor 2 engines with 230 tons of thrust each for 7590 tons. The old Saturn V had 7.75 million pounds of thrust vs the SpaceX V3 booster with 21.7 million pounds of thrust. 2.8 times more thrust than a Saturn V.

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