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by agildehaus 2018 days ago
TEA-TEB is not used on Starship. What you saw was an oxygen rich burn due to the low pressures in the header tank, the engine was eating itself and burning copper in the process. Copper burns green.
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> TEA-TEB is not used on Starship

This is correct. The Raptor uses an electric spark igniter.