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

WASHINGTON — SpaceX said that a Falcon 9 upper stage that reentered ... oxygen leak caused ice to build up the upper stage’s Merlin engine and resulted in “excessive cooling of engine ...

NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the next ISS crew-rotation mission, Crew-10. The 10th operational crewed mission under ...

The failure of a SpaceX rocket's upper stage engine late Thursday that stranded ... two upcoming piloted flights of the company's Falcon 9 rockets. The mishap ended a remarkable string of 344 ...

The Crew-10 mission is soaring toward the ISS, with a team of astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Their spacecraft ...

Now during that entry burn, Falcon 9 is decelerating by firing its Merlin engines, but it's still moving incredibly fast, and this causes the vehicle to fly through Merlin's exhaust gasses ...