Merlin, SpaceX’s new breed of rocket engines, has finally achieved flight qualification for use on the company’s mission-ready rockets. The Merlin 1D engine was put through its paces ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, which is powered by nine of the Merlin engines on its first stage, at least three more times this year. Its next launch, a national security ...

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 ...

A principal objective of the new design was to facilitate booster reusability for a larger range of missions, including delivery of large commsats to geosynchronous orbit. Modifications included ...

The company is developing a larger vehicle, named Helios, that could meaningfully improve the ability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 ...

The Raptor engines are more powerful than the Merlin engines used by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. The increased power is required for the kind of missions that SpaceX wants to use the ...

The Merlin engine and grid fin will go on display at the National Air and Space Museum. A SpaceX rocket engine that was used in the launch of an Israeli company's first attempt at landing on the ...

(KSNW) — The Cosmosphere International SciEd Center & Space Museum has received a gift from SpaceX ... The Merlin engines will go on display in the new rocket gallery, which is expected to ...

Humankind's first Space Race began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik) into orbit around Earth. The unparalleled and exponential explosion ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -The Kansas Cosmosphere received a Merlin rocket engine from SpaceX. The engine powered SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. “Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital-class ...

SpaceX has revolutionized space travel by developing rockets that can land themselves with astonishing accuracy, drastically ...