The Raptor engines are the same size as the Merlin engines. The SpaceX BFR has 31 engines in the first stage and 6 engines in the second stage. SpaceX should be able to produce ten BFR per year. How ...

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 ...

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 ...

No new target date has been announced for Ax-4, which had been scheduled to launch on Wednesday morning (June 11).

Correction: This story was updated at 6:48 p.m. EST to correct the date of the SpaceX Merlin rocket engine mishap. It occurred Saturday, Nov. 4, not Sunday, Nov. 5, according to a SpaceX statement.

An explosive leak? SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the blast, a company source who is familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

SpaceX is also using Merlin 1D engines in its Grasshopper reusable launch vehicle. One of the engine tests, which took place at the SpaceX rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas, can be ...

Welcome to Edition 7.47 of the Rocket Report! Let's hope not, but the quarrel between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk ...

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 ...

(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 ...