Since the founding of SpaceX in 2002, the company has developed four families of rocket engines — Merlin, Kestrel, Draco and SuperDraco — and since 2016...
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Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion...
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The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules. Two engine types have been built to...
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Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly...
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of lowering launch costs using economies of scale. SpaceX aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing...
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rocket engines and thrusters as well as for testing final manufactured engines, various components, and engines during development. Although SpaceX manufactures...
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The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed in the 2000s by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon...
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SuperDraco (redirect from SuperDraco (rocket engine))
propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. It is part of the SpaceX Draco family of rocket engines. A redundant array of eight SuperDraco engines provides...
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American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, the Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's new super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called Starship...
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family of heavy-lift launch vehicles – both of which are powered by SpaceX Merlin engines and employ VTVL technologies to reuse the first stage. As of 2024...
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Congress, a Raptor engine fired for the first time. At the event, Musk announced SpaceX was developing a new rocket using Raptor engines called the Interplanetary...
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Lifting Booster 7 | SpaceX Boca Chica, August 8, 2022, archived from the original on April 17, 2023, retrieved August 11, 2022. @spacex (August 11, 2022)...
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graduates. SpaceX uses a high degree of vertical integration in the production of its rockets and rocket engines. SpaceX builds its rocket engines, rocket stages...
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Starship flight test 1 (redirect from SpaceX Starship otf)
minutes after lifting off from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. The vehicle became the most powerful rocket ever flown, breaking the half-century-old...
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Finds SpaceX Rocket Wreckage in Bahamas". SpaceNews. Retrieved March 8, 2018. Clark, Stephen (June 1, 2018). "New photos illustrate progress in SpaceX's fairing...
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"Another scrub! SpaceX rocket launch aborts just after engines ignite at Cape Canaveral". Florida Today. Retrieved 15 June 2024. "SpaceX completes Falcon...
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Falcon 9 (redirect from SpaceX Falcon IX)
news: SpaceX successfully test fires Falcon 9 rocket in Texas Falcon 9 official page SAOCOM 1B | Launch and Landing Test firing of two Merlin 1C engines connected...
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Starship flight test 2 (redirect from SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2)
Starship flight test 2 was the second flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on November 18, 2023. The mission's...
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not join SpaceX. Mueller was in charge of developing rocket engines, propellant tanks and plumbing; Thompson was in charge of making the rocket's body and...
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developed, manufactured, and operated by American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions...
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SpaceX Starship flight tests include fifteen launches to date of prototype rockets during 2019–2024 for the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle development...
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liquid-propellant rocket engine designed by aerospace company Rocket Lab and manufactured in Long Beach, California. The engine is used on the company's own rocket, Electron...
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an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. Located near Brownsville, Texas,...
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solid rocket motor for Ariane 6 and Vega-C "PSLV-1". Archived from the original on August 5, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014. "Spacex Raptor". NASA SpaceFlight...
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Staged combustion cycle (redirect from Closed cycle rocket engine)
Frontier Aerospace LCH4/LOX engine in development. As of July 2024, it has not flown. Space Shuttle Angara (rocket family) SpaceX Starship H-II H-IIA H-IIB...
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SpaceX Mars colonization program (also referred to as Occupy Mars colloquially) is a planned objective of the company SpaceX and particularly of its founder...
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Tom Mueller (category SpaceX people)
aerospace engineer and rocket engine designer. He was employee No.1 of SpaceX and is the founder and now CEO of Impulse Space. Mueller is best known for...
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ratios including a turbopump have been as high as 155:1 with the SpaceX Merlin 1D rocket engine and up to 180:1 with the vacuum version. Instead of a pump,...
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Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests (redirect from SpaceX Falcon 9 booster post-mission, controlled-descent, test program)
tests conducted by SpaceX between 2013 and 2016. Since 2017, the first stage of Falcon 9 missions has been routinely landed if the rocket performance allowed...
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Falcon Heavy (redirect from SpaceX Falcon Heavy)
designed, manufactured and launched by American aerospace company SpaceX. The rocket consists of a center core on which two Falcon 9 boosters are attached...
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