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Old 13th February 2025 | 10:59
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The Raptor burns methalox, first flew in April 2023 and is in mass production with V3 entering production. Current production rate is 500 a year but will need to ramp up to 4000 a year with current Booster/Starship production plans.

Blue Origins BE-4 first flew in January 2024 with a current production rate of 42 a year.

If you want to go back and argue who flew the first methalox engine to put a payload in orbit - it was the Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TQ-12

https://www.spaceintel101.com/post/c...powered-rocket
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