Falcon 9 rockets are propelled by nine Merlin engines, which use kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel. Upon its eventual launch ...

and shows the Merlin vacuum engine on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage as it powers the payload to orbit. SpaceX also shared a set of stunning images from the mission that show the Falcon 9 ...

The Crew-9 launch also suffered issues with the Falcon 9 rocket. Its upper stage had a problem with a final deorbit burn, ...

(submitted by Ken the Bin) Falcon 9 rocket upper stage misfires ... in March 2023 suffering a second-stage engine failure. However, the new rocket has since flown successfully twice.

SpaceX targets Sunday for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The ...

The Long March 9 super heavy-lift rocket made an appearance at a major airshow recently—and looks awfully familiar.

Falcon 9 launched from Space Launch Complex 40 ... processes up to and including a brief test-firing of the rocket’s first stage engines. This was conducted successfully on Friday night ...

SpaceX’s workhorse rocket – the Falcon 9 – has had many major upgrades to its systems, most notably to its fuel tanks and engines. On its debut, the Falcon 9 looked much different than it ...

For the airliner analogy to really work, whatever inspections and repairs the rocket requires ... the three colossal RS-25 engines used on the Shuttle. The Falcon 9, with the exception of the ...

Gilmour Space Technologies has been granted a permit to launch its 82-foot-tall (25-meter) orbital rocket from a spaceport in Queensland, Australia. The space company, founded in 2012, had initially ...

Second engine chill, second engine start up one ... mission to the International Space Station on Monday night. A Falcon 9 rocket sent the Cargo Dragon spacecraft to space at 9:29 p.m. from ...

SpaceX launched another batch of 23 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape ...