SpaceX hasn’t grounded their entire fleet ... As the design of the Falcon 9 Block 5 and Merlin engine have been frozen since 2018 to facilitate human-rating the vehicle by NASA, we know no ...

Upcoming SpaceX, NASA, ULA rocket launch schedule ... Falcon 9 rockets are propelled by nine Merlin engines, which use ...

Fortunately, the fourth mission was a success, and the improved Merlin engine continues to be used in the Falcon 9, which ArsTechnica calls the safest rocket in the world. Today, SpaceX’s ...

With the launch Friday and another Falcon 9 flight Monday (this one with a booster on its 15th mission), SpaceX has launched Falcon 9 rockets 423 times. The fleet leader, Booster No. 1,067, has now ...

Tom Mueller was a founding employee of SpaceX. He was the lead designer on the Merlin engines that power SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. In 2020, he left SpaceX and founded his own company ...

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 ...

Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch following unexpected engine shutdowns or failures. SpaceX later confirmed the ship's destruction in a posting on X ...

Elon Musk said a leak above the ship's engine firewall may have occurred. SpaceX conducted the seventh flight test of its Starship launch vehicle on Thursday, which the company called "the most ...