Raptor engines are pure engineering magic

There’s no way an engine this powerful should look this clean and beautiful

Full-flow staged combustion had been attempted for decades by other rocket programs, but before Raptor, nobody had ever managed to get a full-flow staged-combustion engine to actually fly........it was extremely complex, risky and difficult to solve, and nobody had managed to make it work in flight

SpaceX is the only company that made this engine architecture fly, proved it works, and then started mass-producing it for Starship

Absolutely insane engineering