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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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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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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to 1,000 rocket engines per year, approximately 2 to 4 each day, significantly expanding SpaceX's production capacity. As part of the SpaceX reusable...
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company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as the successor to the company's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, and...
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American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's super heavy-lift space vehicle, also called Starship...
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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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Heavy heavy-lift launch vehicle – 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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Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon 1 capsule to satisfy NASA's COTS contracts for deliveries to the International Space Station. By 2012, SpaceX finished...
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of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage. As a part of SpaceX's Mars colonization...
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List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (2020–2022) (category SpaceX launch vehicles)
photo mosaic will be sent to space in SpaceX flight". TESLARATI. Retrieved 12 August 2022. "Falcon 9 rocket deploys SpaceX's 3,000th Starlink internet satellite"...
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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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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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"Another scrub! SpaceX rocket launch aborts just after engines ignite at Cape Canaveral". Florida Today. Retrieved June 15, 2024. "SpaceX completes Falcon...
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Staged combustion cycle (redirect from Closed cycle rocket engine)
Aerospace LCH4/LOX engine in development. As of July 2024, it has not flown. Space Shuttle Angara (rocket family) Antares 100 and 200 SpaceX Starship H-II...
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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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Falcon 1 by SpaceX. The 1960s Sea Dragon concept by Robert Truax for a big dumb booster would have used pressure-fed engines. Pressure-fed engines have practical...
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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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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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List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (2010–2019) (category SpaceX launch vehicles)
2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018. "Spacex signs Argentina's space agency for two Falcon 9 launches" (Press release). SpaceX. 16 April 2009. Archived from the...
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manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions...
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SpaceX Starbase—previously, SpaceX South Texas Launch Site and SpaceX private launch site—is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves...
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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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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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Rutherford engines are the first electric-pump-fed engine to power an orbital-class rocket. Electron is often flown with a kickstage or Rocket Lab's Photon...
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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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Starshield, SpaceX readies for battle". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-10. "SpaceX - Starshield". www.spacex.com. Archived...
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List of Super Heavy boosters (category SpaceX Starship)
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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