The rocket has two stages. The first stage or booster stage comprises nine Merlin engines (a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX), and aluminium-lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen ...

A landing burn used a single Merlin rocket engine to enable the rocket land on an autonomous recovery vessel about 8 minutes and 20 seconds after the rocket's launch. Related SpaceX launches 23 ...

Dubbed HeliStorm, the lightweight, high-speed electric engine family will cover the 6,000-7,000 rpm range. The first engine will provide a peak power of 330 kW, and leverages lessons learned from ...

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The slowed-down video shows the rocket’s 33 Raptor engines firing up as the enormous 120-meter-tall vehicle leaves the launchpad. With the rocket pumping out a colossal 17 million pounds of ...

A timed exposure shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying into a low deck of clouds after launching from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 21 in a mission nearly ...

Victor Dotsenko was flying his family — wife Rimma, 39, and their three children David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, 7 — when their single-engine Piper PA32RT crashed onto the frontage road of ...

The Akronauts Rocket Design Team aims to become one of the few collegiate teams to reach space with their Emergence series of rockets.

No new target date has been announced. Firefly Aerospace will launch its Alpha rocket for the sixth time ever on Saturday morning (March 15), and you can watch the action live. Alpha is scheduled ...

Pratt & Whitney's GTF Advantage engine received FAA type certification for the Airbus A320neo family, promising enhanced thrust, better fuel efficiency, and lower carbon emissions. The engine ...