SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired ...

SpaceX’s next Starlink launch and second launch of the week from California will be the Group 11-6 mission, which will launch ...

With the launch Friday and another Falcon 9 flight Monday (this one with a booster on its 15th mission), SpaceX has launched ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has weighed in on his billionaire space rival Jeff Bezos's launch of his Blue Origin rocket, after its ...

During Miko, we'll shut down the 9 Merlin 1D engines, which was followed by stage ... That landing marks SpaceX's 341st successful recovery of an orbital class rocket, including first stage ...

Ever Since the Merlin 1A was used in 2006, engines from SpaceX have seen steady improvements. The Merlin 1D has been used as recently as January 23, 2024, when a Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 ...

That's why rockets have to carry tanks of both fuel and oxidizer. The SpaceX Falcon 9's Merlin engines use rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) fuel with liquid oxygen as the oxidizer. NASA's Space Launch ...

Reusability allows SpaceX to refly the most expensive parts ... of three reusable Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at ...

While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught ...