SpaceX is developing a revolutionary new engine that could push human space travel beyond the Milky Way. If successful, this technology might be the first step toward intergalactic exploration ...

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink ... Starlink launches require two firings of the second stage's vacuum-rated Merlin engine. The first firing ended on time around eight-and-a-half minutes ...

(KSNW) — The Cosmosphere International SciEd Center & Space Museum has received a gift from SpaceX. The Smithsonian-affiliated center will receive one of nine Merlin engines from the commercial ...

A qualification test of a Raptor 2 engine has resulted in a dramatic explosion at SpaceX’s McGregor facility. The company has yet to comment on the incident, but it’s unlikely to affect the ...

SpaceX uses its McGregor facility to test its Merlin and Raptor engines prior to flight, with the former destined for the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. The Starship’s first stage ...

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 ...

Merlin is SpaceX's first and most reliable ... It leaves an enormous amount of solid carbon matter behind, which is fine with an expendable single-use engine but not so great if you want to ...

A 2013 version of SpaceX's website explained that the Merlin engine used for its current Falcon 9 launches had a specific impulse of 282 seconds for the sea level and specific impulse of 311 ...

Unlike SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Heavy Rockets which are powered by Merlin engines, its Starship is powered by Raptor engines. Raptor engines are reusable methane-oxygen staged-combustion engines ...

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 ...

The SpaceX Raptor engine already enables the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship to have more than double the thrust of the Saturn V. Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography talked about the SpaceX 1337 having ...