SpaceX completed a ground-based test of its Crew Dragon’s launch escape system on Wednesday, the first such test since April 2019 when an explosion wrecked the capsule. No one was hurt in the ...

SpaceX has successfully completed a round of Crew Dragon tests, which previously ended in an explosion. The space company attempted a similar set of static fire engine tests on April 20th, but it ...

Today, SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida — paving the way for the company to perform a crucial test ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft's Super Draco abort engines were fired Wednesday in a critical test that sets the stage for an in-flight abort demonstration later this year.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft test fires its SuperDraco launch escape system engines in this still from a video released by SpaceX on Oct. 24, 2019. (Image credit: SpaceX) ...

As part of SpaceX’s state-of-the-art launch escape system, eight SuperDraco engines built into the side walls of the Dragon spacecraft will produce up to 120,000 pounds of axial thrust to carry ...

With the crew safely strapped in and Dragon's hatch closed, the SpaceX mission operators polled "go" to begin fast-fueling Falcon 9's kerosene-liquid oxygen propellant at T-45 minutes. At liftoff, the ...

SpaceX is replacing two engines on the rocket that will launch the company's next crewed mission, which is scheduled to lift off on Nov. 14. The measure follows an investigation into the aberrant ...

SpaceX added that Crew Dragon’s eight engines can move the spacecraft half a mile in only 7.5 seconds. Fired together at full throttle, Crew Dragon's eight SuperDracos can move the ...

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said Feb. 1 that it has successfully test fired a launch escape system engine that it is developing with NASA’s financial assistance.

"The vehicle design will build upon SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft, with an enhanced trunk section that will host propellant tanks, engines, avionics, power generation and thermal hardware ...

SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will probably power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday. The Merlin 1D engine ...