接上篇：马斯克和他的火枪手们的搞怪史——特斯拉篇，今天继续八一八马一龙这个老没正经的50多岁理工大男孩，如何在他的另一家绝对重量级公司里嬉笑玩闹，谈笑间将循规蹈矩、一脸严肃的航天业翻了个底朝天。以下，马斯克和他的火枪手们的搞怪史——SpaceX篇（空 ...

Its first stage was powered by a single Merlin engine, while the upper stage used the smaller, pressure-fed, Kestrel. Both engines were built in-house by SpaceX. Being smaller and less complex ...

Dubbed the SXM-9 mission, SpaceX is launching the 10th satellite built by Maxar for SiriusXM. The satellite's high-tech ...

CleanJoule introduces a 100 percent SAF-based replacement for Rocket Propellant 1 (RP-1), the fuel of choice for many launch ...

The Raptor has a reputation as the powerhouse in SpaceX's arsenal, as it offers significantly more thrust than the company's smaller but reputedly more reliable engine, the Merlin -- among other ...

The Merlin engines that the first stage uses are ... Stage one landing confirmed. SpaceX successfully launched the TD7 satellite mission from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday afternoon.The ...

“No one has ever succeeded,” in low-orbit satcoms Musk admitted in 2019 as his first satellites went up. And it wasn’t ...

SpaceX has never used hydrogen fuel, in line with its ambition to bring down the cost of space launch. Its initial Merlin rocket engine, still in service, uses highly refined rocket-grade kerosene ...

SpaceX is renovating the former Falcon 9 first ... The tripod was used to test the 9 Merlin engines of each Falcon 9 first stage from 2008 until mid-2015. Its first test – a firing of two ...