When nine of the engines are combined in the Falcon 9’s first stage, they should produce almost 1.5 million lbs of thrust in a vacuum – the same as the existing Merlin engines. SpaceX claims ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (May 9), carrying 26 Starlink satellites for the ...

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 ...

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.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX 's Starlink 6-74 mission Thursday night, April 24, out of Florida's Space Coast. Liftoff occurred at 9:52 p.m. ET (0152 GMT, April 25) from Launch Complex-40 (LC-40) ...

by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The SpaceX CEO appeared in Everyday Astronaut's vlog, which talked about the engines of the company's spacecraft, focusing on the Merlin rocket from the Falcon 9 ...

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 ...

Upcoming SpaceX, NASA, ULA rocket launch schedule ... Falcon 9 rockets are propelled by nine Merlin engines, which use kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel. Upon its eventual launch, the rocket ...

SpaceX has completed its investigation into what went wrong during the eighth test flight of Starship rocket, which ended in ...

SpaceX – Space Exploration Technologies ... Aluminum-lithium alloy tanks fuel nine Merlin engines with liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene propellant, generating more than 1.7 million ...

Roger Gilbertson / Space X The Merlin engine put Falcon 1 in orbit for the first time in 2008. Roger Gilbertson / Space X A statue of Iron Man, wearing company ID, guards SpaceX's lunch area.

“In addition, SpaceX may need to request and receive ... to raise perigee – or the lowest point of orbit – the Merlin Vacuum engine experienced an anomaly and was unable to complete its ...