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🚨 BREAKING: 🇮🇳 India’s first ‘SpaceX-level’ rocket engine unveiled by Bengaluru startup Bengaluru startup Astrobase Space has unveiled EVEREST, India’s first fully integrated 80-tonne (800 kN) full-flow staged combustion engine running on liquid oxygen and methane. In this rare design, every drop of fuel and oxidiser powers the pumps... show more

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आकाश 🚩ॐ 🇮🇳3 months ago

Why EVEREST matters Most rockets are used once. EVEREST uses a full-flow staged combustion engine—one of the world's hardest rocket technologies making future rockets more efficient and reusable. If hotfire tests succeed, India joins an elite club building next-gen rocket engines

Sheavy3 months ago

The headline is about a rocket engine. The bigger story is the manufacturing behind it. Designing, testing and building complex turbomachinery and 3D-printed engine components entirely in India is the kind of capability that quietly changes an ecosystem.

Blood Evolver3 months ago

First build it then make it look cool 😎

Aditya 𝕏 🐦3 months ago

@grok how it compares against SpaceX raptor engines?

Akshay B3 months ago

Wow!! What @isro has been struggling for so many years & still only 88% capacity achieved, these newcomers have achieved in their 1st shot. At 800KN, it’s equivalent of SpaceX’s Merlin engine used in Falcon9

karupaiahr3 months ago

👍🙏

Akshay Lingwal3 months ago

The shift to Full-Flow Staged Combustion is the real technical hurdle here. Engineering turbopumps that can survive hot, high-pressure, oxygen-rich gas without melting is why only a handful of players globally have pulled it off at scale. Massive milestone for India’s private space sector. 🚀

Vivek Saxena3 months ago

Good but far from spaceX

Halal Hindu Akhilesh3 months ago

Wow 🔥🔥 @astrobase_space

Albish Daimari3 months ago

Don't do it. What did you even mean by SpaceX level? Indian Engineers are doing great but iska matlab yeh nhi kuch v bol do. SpaceX has many Rocket Engines which one are you talking about? V1, V2, V3 which one?

Jayaram S3 months ago

@grok what technology does China and Japan’s reusable rocket engines under development use ?

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