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 rocket engine exploded over the weekend at the company’s facility in McGregor, Texas, and the firm is investigating why. A Merlin engine exploded during a “qualification test” on ...

SpaceX’s Merlin ... engine restart for another burn to deorbit the Upper Stage. Protected by what appears to be a version of the PICA-X (a proprietary variant of NASA’s phenolic impregnated ...

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.

File photo of a Merlin engine being tested. SpaceX said it suffered an anomaly during qualification testing of an engine recently, but that it would not delay upcoming launches. Credit ...

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 ...

The Merlin 1D engine has completed all of its testing and is ready to take to the skies later this year.SpaceX has announced that the Merlin 1D has achieved flight qualification status ...