{"id":56249,"date":"2021-11-30T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-elon-musk-says-raptor-engines-put-spacex-at-risk-of-bankruptcy\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:28:00","slug":"report-elon-musk-says-raptor-engines-put-spacex-at-risk-of-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-elon-musk-says-raptor-engines-put-spacex-at-risk-of-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Elon Musk Says Raptor Engines Put SpaceX at Risk of Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p id=\"m6e0X8\">On Black Friday, <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> CEO Elon Musk sent an anxious email to his company\u2019s employees, urging them to work over the weekend on SpaceX\u2019s Raptor engine line and describing the production situation as a \u201ccrisis.\u201d In the email, a copy of which was obtained by&nbsp;<em>The Verge<\/em>, Musk argued that the company faces a \u201cgenuine risk of bankruptcy\u201d if production doesn\u2019t increase to support a high flight rate of the company\u2019s new Starship rocket next year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5Ynuqw\">The Raptor is SpaceX\u2019s massive methane engine that will be used to propel the company\u2019s next-generation launch system, called Starship. SpaceX plans to use Starship to take people to deep space, and in April,&nbsp;<strong>NASA<\/strong> awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract&nbsp;to develop Starship as a lunar lander to transport astronauts to the Moon\u2019s surface as early as 2025. SpaceX has been hard at work developing and testing Starship prototypes at the company\u2019s test site in Boca Chica, Texas, though the company has yet to launch the vehicle to orbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Read more from The Verge &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Black Friday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent an anxious email to his company\u2019s employees, urging them to work over the weekend on SpaceX\u2019s Raptor engine line and describing the production situation as a \u201ccrisis.\u201d In the email, a copy of which was obtained by&nbsp;The Verge, Musk argued that the company faces a \u201cgenuine risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}