Powerful and dependable, the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine was fitted to many of the most significant warplanes of the ...

File photo of a Merlin engine being tested. SpaceX said it suffered an anomaly during qualification testing of an engine recently, but that it would not delay upcoming launches. Credit: SpaceX ...

Without question, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is one of the greatest piston pushers ever made. The 27-liter V12 was built in the 1930s and 1940s and would eventually go on to power allied fighter ...

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 ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. SpaceX will suspend engine testing at the Texas facility where the explosion occurred during an investigation. A SpaceX rocket engine exploded ...

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that its Merlin 1D engine has achieved a full mission duration firing and multiple restarts at target thrust and specific impulse (Isp). The engine ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the video for release dated Nov. 12, 2007 with the accompanying corrected video. The release reads: SPACEX COMPLETES DEVELOPMENT OF MERLIN ...

SpaceX blew up an experimental engine during a test at its McGregor, Texas, development facility on Saturday. No one was hurt in the incident, SpaceX said. The new engine model is more powerful and ...

If there's one thing more satisfying than a Rolls-Royce car, it's a Rolls-Royce engine. A Merlin engine, specifically, of the sort that once powered Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and all manner of ...

SpaceX confirmed that a new variant of its Merlin engine failed in a pre-test procedure on Saturday, resulting in an explosion at the company’s rocket development facility in Texas. SpaceX said in a ...

SpaceX suffered an explosion of one of its Falcon 9 rocket engines during qualification testing at its facility in McGregor, Texas, per The Verge. The failure resulting in the explosion occurred on ...

LONDON—Safran Helicopter Engines has been awarded a £241 million ($305.2 million) contract to support the RTM322 engines used on the UK Royal Navy’s Leonardo Merlin helicopters. The six-year ...