Aluminum-lithium alloy tanks fuel nine Merlin engines with liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene propellant, generating more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust. The main engines are cutoff as ...

The blast occurred in one of two bays the company uses to test Merlin rocket engines — nine of which line the bottom of every reusable Falcon 9 booster. "No one was injured and all safety ...

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 Merlin rocket engine exploded Sunday at SpaceX's test facilities in Central Texas. According to the company, no one was injured during the mishap, which damaged two bays in a Merlin engine test ...

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 ...

Rolls-Royce (and Packard) built almost 150,000 27-liter Merlin V-12 engines during World War II. Many of them survived, yet none were supposed to end up in road cars. But then came a bunch of aero ...

SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will likely power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday (March 20). The Merlin ...

When SpaceX began building what would become its Merlin engine, it settled on a relatively simple design it could bring to market quickly and scale upwards over time. Over the last 11 years ...