Videos of Cybertruck towing SpaceX rocket engine!! 🦾

[CyberCowboy]

WTH!!! SpaceX has an NBA player working for them! Green Hat Guy has to be over 7' tall!!!

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[PilotPete]

Turn on the rocket engine!

CAUTION: WORTHLESS INFORMATION CALCULATED QUICKLY WITH A VERY JET LAGGED BRAIN. (Sorry if I didn’t carry the 1 or something)

So for fun (yeah, I’m a nerd) I looked at public data on the Raptor3 engine. The weight of the Raptor2 has been reported at 3,500# of weight. the R3 thrust has been demonstrated (so far) at 590,000# thrust at SL. If we assume the trailer (as mentioned above) is ~2K# as well as the cradle, and a ~7k# CT, and fill the bed with 3,500# of fuel (good for 2.5 seconds of 100% thrust) would give you almost 33Gs of acceleration. Now, provided you could figure out a way to not shred the CT and its occupants apart and kill any living being inside, and not accounting for aerodynamic drag (cuz I don’t have a reliable cd, and at these numbers, who cares) you are looking at a speed of somewhere around 1750+mph. All in 2.5 seconds. Mach 2.33 in a standard atmosphere. Which looked pretty close to that video of the CT pulling away at the light.

I don’t think it matters if you are in front or behind the engine at that point.

 

[fritter63]

Not happy to see all the "oil canning" (~5 minute mark). Hopefully that's one of the earlier builds!

 

[Tinker71]

That's payload. EM stated it can tow up to 14k in top spec ...

Most trucks can tow just about anything off public streets. EV vehicles even more. Just limited by hitch capacity and low speed steering and stopping control, but judging by the trailer tires I doubt it weighs more than 14,000 lbs.

 

[FenryHonda]

I love it. No matter how advanced our equipment is, we still have to jump on the bed of the truck to release the hitch.

 

[Carlos Thomas]

Did anyone notice the air lift suspension at the 8 minute & 34 second?

 

[Onan]

This is for the "new" Plaid Cybertruck, price unknown.

 

[JBee]

CAUTION: WORTHLESS INFORMATION CALCULATED QUICKLY WITH A VERY JET LAGGED BRAIN. (Sorry if I didn’t carry the 1 or something)

So for fun (yeah, I’m a nerd) I looked at public data on the Raptor3 engine. The weight of the Raptor2 has been reported at 3,500# of weight. the R3 thrust has been demonstrated (so far) at 590,000# thrust at SL. If we assume the trailer (as mentioned above) is ~2K# as well as the cradle, and a ~7k# CT, and fill the bed with 3,500# of fuel (good for 2.5 seconds of 100% thrust) would give you almost 33Gs of acceleration. Now, provided you could figure out a way to not shred the CT and its occupants apart and kill any living being inside, and not accounting for aerodynamic drag (cuz I don’t have a reliable cd, and at these numbers, who cares) you are looking at a speed of somewhere around 1750+mph. All in 2.5 seconds. Mach 2.33 in a standard atmosphere. Which looked pretty close to that video of the CT pulling away at the light.

I don’t think it matters if you are in front or behind the engine at that point.

I've honestly been wondering for a few months now if some day we can buy Raptor engines second hand from SpaceX to build our own SS tanks and rocket to space on own DIY spaceships.

I was already thinking of building a model on Kerbal Space, maybe single vacuum raptor on a shuttle type craft, and three SL Raptors on a booster should be enough and do about the same as Falcon? Both fully reusable but smaller scale. Maybe you can do the math for that quick?

I always liked the SABRE powered Skylon concept, and have always wondered if there's less if a brute force method of getting to orbit.

 

[Ehninger1212]

oh wow... much tow, so impress.

 

[rizvend]

I don't see "booster rocket" in the list for Cybrtrk configurator. Is this the performance variant Elon was talking about?

 

[Coolbreeze704]

Spouse says this is brilliant PR.

-Crissa

I was thinking the same thing Thursday when the thread for
Florida & East Coast keep your eyes peeled! Cybertruck spotted near SpaceX / Cape Canaveral

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...d-near-spacex-cape-canaveral.9369/post-181306

 

[GlockandRoll]

So how much does that engine weigh

I'm no rocket surgeon, but I believe it has a 143.8 thrust-to-weight ratio and provides 590000 lbs of thrust, so with that, I'm figuring just a tick over 2 tons.

 

[SONNYDUT]

This is great to see the CT in action. Raptor engine is not too heavy but that trailer alone is massively heavy, 7k lb. min. Thank you for the video.

 

[Kahpernicus]

They're both head and fog lights on the bottom. lol

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