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Interactive Raptor 3 Rocket Engine Teardown

Konstantin Saifoulline

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Sep 27, 2026

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A browser-based dissection of SpaceX's Raptor 3 engine built entirely with Claude Opus 5.5. Slice the engine open, trace liquid oxygen and methane through both turbopumps in real time, then grab the throttle and watch shock diamonds bloom and collapse in the exhaust plume. It's the kind of hands-on explainer that makes a textbook feel like a punishment — every moving part is labeled, animated, and begging to be poked.

Cut the engine open layer by layer and follow both propellant paths through the turbopumps
Live throttle control that animates shock diamond formation in the exhaust
Full Raptor 3 fidelity: built with Claude Opus 5.5 in a single interactive web artifact

“I asked Claude Opus 5.5 to explain how a rocket engine works by building an interactive Raptor 3 you can take apart in your browser. Cut it open, follow the oxygen and the methane through both turbopumps, then throttle it and watch the shock diamonds move. http://airsup.ai/rocket-engine”
— @konstantinsaifo

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