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 ...

Ever Since the Merlin 1A was used in 2006, engines from SpaceX have seen steady improvements. The Merlin 1D has been used as recently as January 23, 2024, when a Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has weighed in on his ... The Falcon Heavy's first stage boosters will be made of nine Merlin 1D engines, which will each have a thrust capability of 845 kN (190,000 lbf).

SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired ...

As the falling booster approached SpaceX's Texas facilities, it nailed a complex maneuver that had happened only once before. The booster fired its engines to lower itself to a catch tower ...

Feb. 2 (UPI) --SpaceX launched 22 more Starlink satellites, this time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 4E at 3:02 p.m. PST Saturday.

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 ...

The rocket booster revved up the 33 engines at its base, sending a loud roar across Starbase, the SpaceX launch site near Brownsville, Texas. For the first time, one of those 33 Raptor engines had ...

The booster was also re-using one of the rocket engines from a previous Starship flight for the first time. This story has been updated with additional information from SpaceX, Elon Musk ...

but as we were getting to the end of that ascent and burn we saw engines dropping out on telemetry, and we have since lost contact with the Ship,” said SpaceX commentator Dan Huot.