Disaster! China keeps Copying SpaceX Raptor with billions of dollars, making Laugh to Elon Musk...

Disaster! China keeps Copying SpaceX Raptor with billions of dollars, making Laugh to Elon Musk...
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0:00 intro
0:41 Copying SpaceX's Reusability
3:16 China's Raptor Copy
5:59 China's Starship Mini
10:29 SpaceX Reboosts ISS
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Disaster! China keeps Copying SpaceX Raptor with billions of dollars, making Laugh to Elon Musk...
This… is Raptor 3, the most powerful rocket engine ever built, SpaceX’s masterpiece, and set to officially fly later this year.
And this one right here… you might think it’s also a Raptor 3, right? But no! It’s the Mammoth-1 engine, developed in China. A stunning copy, down to every detail: the design, the tech, even the performance specs. Interestingly, it was built with one bold mission in mind, to beat the US in the space race, using the very technology America created.
So, how close is Mammoth-1 to the real thing? And can China actually pull off that ambitious plan?
Let’s find out, in today’s episode of Alpha Tech.
Disaster! China keeps Copying SpaceX Raptor with billions of dollars, making Laugh to Elon Musk...
When it comes to copying technology, especially space and rocket tech, you have to give China some credit. They don’t just build replicas that look convincing… they actually work. And sometimes, they work surprisingly well.
Just over seven months ago, a little-known Chinese aerospace startup called Cosmoleap shocked the space community when they revealed a copy of Mechazilla, SpaceX’s giant launch and catch tower, this time adapted for their own Yueqian rocket.
And here’s the kicker: Cosmoleap wasn’t some long-standing aerospace giant. It was a brand-new company, founded in 2024. Which raises the obvious question… who’s really backing them? It doesn’t take much guessing to point at the Chinese government.
Disaster! China keeps Copying SpaceX Raptor with billions of dollars, making Laugh to Elon Musk...
That’s exactly why they’ve been so bold in copying American technology, especially from SpaceX. It’s not just Mechazilla. They’ve also mirrored the Falcon 9 with their Zhuque-3 rocket, and even attempted to replicate Starship itself with the Long March 9.
Every piece of technology they’ve copied from SpaceX has one thing in common: reusability.
Why? Because the real breakthrough isn’t simply launching rockets, it’s bringing them back and flying them again. That concept, pioneered by Elon Musk, is what slashes costs to levels the world never thought possible.
And just recently, on August 21st, a brand-new Chinese company called Arktech announced it had raised 10 million yuan, about 1.4 million dollars, to develop a rocket called Bingchuan-1, or Glacier-1 in English.
But the real star today isn’t the rocket itself, it’s the Mammoth-1 engine powering Glacier-1.
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