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 is renovating the former Falcon 9 first ... The tripod was used to test the 9 Merlin engines of each Falcon 9 first stage from 2008 until mid-2015. Its first test – a firing of two ...

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 ...

After leaving PayPal in 2000 with $180M, Elon Musk launched Tesla and SpaceX to innovate electric cars and Mars-bound rockets ...

For the second flight test, SpaceX engineers designed a more robust and secure launchpad able to handle the incredible force generated by the Raptor engines as the Starship lifted off. Once ...

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 ...