The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Falcon 9 rockets are propelled by nine Merlin engines, which use kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel. Upon its eventual launch, the rocket will deploy a batch of 22 Starlink internet-beaming ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

Falcon Heavy draws upon the design of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. It has three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores and can lift about 64 metric tons. The 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 ...

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 ...

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

SpaceX is reviewing data from the recent incidents to improve the reliability of future Falcon 9 flights ... up 85 seconds into the flight. The sprayed rocket propellant landed on a very hot rocket ...

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 ...

the fire from the mission's Falcon 9 casting a golden-hour glow over Florida's Space Coast. Ascending into the clear sky, the rocket's engines shut off about 2.5 minutes after liftoff, followed by ...