A Merlin rocket engine in a testing bay at SpaceX's development facility in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the ...

The Merlin engine uses a mixture of liquid oxygen (LOx) and Rocket Propellant-1 (RP-1), a refined form of kerosene, as fuel. Each can produce 190,000 pound-force of thrust.

The Merlin engine powered the rocket used in the Koresat-5A mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the same pad where many Apollo missions started. Autoplay ...

Falcon 9 is a much bigger rocket, and its Merlin engines are much bigger than Rocket Lab's Rutherfords. And Falcon 9 rockets land "dry," either on land or on a drone ship.

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SpaceX's Merlin and Raptor engines were paraded in McGregor, Texas on Founder's Day. (Courtesy Photo) That rocket, the sources say, had already been to space and back and is retired.

For the SpaceX Merlin engine, this ignition source is a pyrophoric chemical called TEA-TEB which ignites on contact with oxygen, while other engines use spark igniters, pyrotechnics, and so on.

That's getting into the range of mid-sized rocket engines, but far short of the RS-25 (over 400,000 LBF) or SpaceX Merlin (about 200,000 LBF), both measured at sea level.