said the company had been looking into an issue with the nozzle of the Merlin engine used in the Falcon 9 upper stage. “We saw potentially a manufacturing defect that could have showed up in the ...

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

Damage to the container of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus space station cargo spacecraft, which was sustained during shipping, ...

The Crew-10 mission is soaring toward the ISS, with a team of astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos. Their spacecraft will dock after a 28.5-hour journey, propelled by the Falcon 9 rocket’s ...

Falcon 9 Booster The Falcon 9 has a uniform diameter of 3.7 meters across its first and second stages. Its second stage, also 3.7 meters, uses one Merlin engine and has a mass of about 100 tons when ...

An issue with a hydraulic system that feeds into one of the clamp arms on the transporter erector, which holds down the rocket before liftoff, forced NASA and SpaceX to scrub the Crew-10 launch on ...

"It looks like several engines have shut down and we've lost ... SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 rocked carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense from Cape Canaveral ...