Taking what it’s learned from the Falcon 9, SpaceX has designed its next-generation and much more powerful Starship rocket to ...

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket on June 4, 2010. Since then it has gone through five major revisions, leading to ...

What do you say about a rocket that just can’t get enough returning? For the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1085, the answer is: a ...

An early Wednesday morning launch on the Space Coast marked the 500th time SpaceX has flown its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, ...

SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission marked the 500th Falcon 9 launch and a new ...

The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station just before 2:30 a.m. It’s sending 27 Starlink ...

The Starlink 10-25 mission launched at 2:28 a.m. July 2 from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 booster saw its ...

Live updates from the Starlink 10-16 mission, which launched at 3:54 p.m. June 25 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—In three-and-a-half years of service, one of SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 boosters stands apart from the rest of the company's rocket inventory. This booster, designated ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with 27 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Courtesy/SpaceX) ...

The Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket. The first stage has nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellant, according to SpaceX.

The Falcon 9 rocket has now launched a total of 139 times. Of those, one mission failed, the launch of an International Space Station supply mission for NASA, in June 2015.