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.

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 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 ...

As usual with station launches from the East Coast, the Falcon 9 will take off along a northeasterly trajectory with the first stage's nine SpaceX Merlin 1D engines firing for about two minutes ...

Today Mueller recounted the creation of SpaceX’s Merlin engines, and dropped some hints about the more powerful Raptor engines to come, while picking up a Space Pioneer Award here at the ...

SpaceX has multiple families of engines, but most people know the Merlin engine as the most powerful model. The company’s rockets used nine Merlin engines to make its historic 2015 flight that ...

SpaceX has discussed swapping a troublesome Merlin even once the rocket has come to the pad. So it's almost certainly not the same engines. I haven't seen a good accounting of how much refurb and ...

Nasa Space Flight – SpaceX and Orbital both fired their new engines. SpaceX’s Merlin 1D rumbled for a full mission duration firing, while Orbital’s AJ-26 continued its testing ahead of its debut on ...

The company wants more time to investigate moisture in two of its Falcon 9 rocket's nine first-stage Merlin engines. SpaceX has delayed the launch of a NASA water-monitoring satellite to Friday ...