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: a total ...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday the privately-held space company’s Merlin engine that powers the reusable Falcon 9 rocket is simpler than the more powerful ...

SpaceX: Falcon 9 Merlin vs. Starship Raptor Engine. A mock up of the Crew Dragon spacecraft is displayed during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory on August 13, ...

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, ...

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 Falcon 9 rocket uses its nine Merlin engines to launch a satellite into space on July 5, 2017. SpaceX/Flickr (public domain) 2017-11-09T15:39:00Z Share. Facebook ...

To be clear, SpaceX’s Merlin engine has been an extremely reliable performer for the company to date, with 84 out of 86 fully successful missions versus attempts for Falcon 9-class vehicles in ...

The engine firing was for 185 seconds with 147,000 pounds of thrust, the full duration and power required for a Falcon 9 rocket launch. The tests took place at SpaceX’s rocket development ...

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -The Kansas Cosmosphere received a Merlin rocket engine from SpaceX. The engine powered SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. “Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital-class, ...

The engines came from the Falcon 9, the first reusable rocket. The engines came from the Koreasat-5A mission that launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 30, 2017.

Designed for the Starship program, this engine is not only more powerful than the Merlin engine used on Falcon 9, but also more efficient and cleaner, offering better thrust-to-weight ratio and ...