Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Merlin 1D engine has achieved flight qualification, a major milestone for the next generation Merlin engine. Through a 28 test qualification program, the ...

The 100th Merlin 1D engine has come off the assembly at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. According to SpaceX it was less than two years ago that production began on Merlin 1D. Currently ...

Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) upgraded Merlin 1D main-stage engine completed a full-duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust and specific ...

When SpaceX began building what would become its Merlin engine, it settled on a relatively simple design it could bring to market quickly and scale upwards over time. Over the last 11 years, ...

SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will probably power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday. The Merlin 1D engine was ...

SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will likely power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday (March 20). The Merlin 1D ...

PARIS – SpaceX is working on a performance enhancement to the Merlin 1D engine that powers its low-cost Falcon 9 rocket, according to one of the company’s commercial customers. The upgrade will ...

WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has discovered the root cause of a premature engine shutdown during the company’s first paid cargo flight to the international space station ...

SpaceX is on track to fly the first upgraded Falcon 9 in early 2013. The upgraded Falcon 9 launch vehicle will include a number of new features, chief among them being the nine Merlin 1D first stage ...

SpaceX has conducted the important static fire of the Falcon 9 rocket that will be tasked with lofting the secretive Zuma payload to Low Earth Orbit next Wednesday. The static fire occurred at the ...