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A never-before-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit today (April 7) from the coast ...
Roger Gilbertson / Space X The Merlin engine put Falcon 1 in orbit for the first time in 2008. Roger Gilbertson / Space X A statue of Iron Man, wearing company ID, guards SpaceX's lunch area.
The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...
SpaceX has shared dramatic slow-motion footage showing a Raptor engine powering down at the end of a recent test fire. “Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion,” SpaceX said in a ...
The roar of the powerful Merlin engines was not just heard but felt ... unlike on Wednesday when an issue forced NASA and SpaceX to scrub the launch. A few hours before launch, officials said ...
For the first time ever, both fairing halves were successfully caught, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter. After a coast phase until T+ 26 minutes, 32 seconds, the Merlin Vacuum engine ...
After leaving PayPal in 2000 with $180M, Elon Musk launched Tesla and SpaceX to innovate electric cars and Mars-bound rockets ...
As for the recent footage released by SpaceX, I didn't think it was possible to capture the ignition of the 33 Raptor engines from beneath the booster, given the intense temperatures, especially ...
Credit: SpaceX A short 2.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first-stage booster shut down its nine Merlin engines, executed stage separation from the rest of the rocket and performed a ...