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The methane-burning BE-4s, each one generating 550,000 pounds of thrust, continued boosting the rocket out of the lower atmosphere for another three minutes or so before shutting down.

This is why rockets are launched vertically, to generate as much downward thrust as possible. However, those thrusters are extremely resource-hungry, gobbling up fuel and power in record time.

The Soviet Union attempted to launch a rocket called the N-1 on four attempts from 1969-1972 that produced 10.2 million pounds of thrust, but they all failed midflight and never made it to space.

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NASA's DRACO Program, the standard-bearer for NTP systems, provides a specific impulse of around 900 seconds, about double a traditional chemical rocket, but half that of most ion thrusters.

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) are being developed with potential to be more efficient and safer than traditional rocket systems. Supercomputer simulations are helping guide their design.