Once Elon Musk decided to build a reusable spacecraft to carry his dreams of Martian colonization, the engineers at SpaceX knew they would need a special engine for the world’s most powerful rocket.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) performed an engine test of its first Falcon 9 launch vehicle on its pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., March 13, successfully igniting all nine ...

SpaceX deployed 29 Starlink satellites on January 18, 2026, expanding its low Earth orbit megaconstellation to over 9,500 active satellites.

Elon Musk is the face of SpaceX — but rockets don’t fly on vision alone. Behind the scenes was Tom Mueller, the engineer who designed the engines that actually made SpaceX work. Before SpaceX, he was ...