NASA explains that the first Falcon 1 missions were powered by an in-house SpaceX-built engine called the Merlin 1A. But the fourth mission, launched in 2008, used an upgraded Merlin 1C engine.

SpaceX's updated Merlin 1C rocket engine (it's now regeneratively cooled instead of ablatively cooled like the Merlin 1A used on Falcon 1's first two launch attempts) has just passed its ...

A test firing of a Merlin 1C engine at the SpaceX test facility in McGregor Texas. Powered by liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene, the Merlin produces over 100,000 pounds of thrust in vacuum ...

SpaceX has completed testing of its latest ... The kerosene-fuelled Merlin 1C is an improved, regeneratively cooled version of the Merlin 1A ablatively cooled engine that powered the first two ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is now a crucial step closer to getting more efficient new engines. While the launch vehicle currently uses nine of the company’s Merlin engines, the next-generation ...

Falcon 1 previously used the ablatively cooled Merlin 1A and the first Kestrel engine. SpaceX has five launches manifested for Falcon 1 and six for Falcon 9. Falcon 9 is being developed for NASA's ...

The Merlin engine and a grid fin were donated by SpaceX to the National Air and Space ... and an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite (SAOCOM 1A). The latter stage was the first to land on ...

SpaceX Update: Timing is Everything On August ... as compared to the prior flight that used our old Merlin 1A ablatively cooled engine. Unlike the ablative engine, the regen engine had unburned ...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced today that it has ... The Merlin 1C is an improved version of the Merlin 1A ablatively cooled engine, which lofted the Falcon 1 on its ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) — The Cosmosphere International SciEd Center & Space Museum has received a gift from SpaceX. The Smithsonian-affiliated center received nine Merlin engines from the ...

SpaceX has successfully deployed the TSAT-1A satellite, the product of a collaboration between Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), the strategic aerospace and defence arm of the Tata Group ...