The rocket engine has come a long way - from fire arrows in ancient China to massive boosters capable of launching humans to Mars. For centuries, rocket technology evolved in small, incremental steps, ...

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

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering debris from a Falcon 9 upper stage could have struck someone in Poland. God ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft last June. The duo ...

It's the first time Falcon Heavy has launched a payload for the US Air Force, but it may not be the last. The rocket blasted off ... which required four upper-stage engine burns that lasted ...

SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent incidents to improve the reliability of future Falcon 9 flights ... up 85 seconds ...

Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...

SPACE X IS ABOUT TO SEND UP ANOTHER FALCON NINE ROCKET. THIS ONE WILL HAVE 21 STARLINK ... TWO, ONE. IGNITION ENGINES WILL POWER AND LIFTOFF. GO. SPACEX! GO! STARLINK. VEHICLE IS PITCHING DOWNRANGE.

The only tell-tale sign that the object had been a Falcon 9 rocket were the nine engines still intact. SpaceX usually successfully lands the first stage of their Falcon 9 rockets. But this one had ...