If the SuperDraco thrusters bring Red Dragon to a feather-like stop on the surface of the red planet, more Mars missions will undoubtedly follow. We shall be watching with keen interest.

SuperDraco is a 3D printed engine that's designed to be throttled from 20% to 100% of thrust and can be restarted multiple times. The SuperDraco engines are going to be used to ensure that a crew ...

The SuperDraco will make its first flight on a pad abort test later this year as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capabilities (CCiCap) initiative. The video below shows a SuperDraco ...

About a minute and a half after the Falcon 9 launches, the Crew Dragon’s SuperDraco engines will fire and the capsule will separate from the rocket. At the same time, ...

Those SuperDraco thrusters are powered by monomethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide — propellants that, when combined, immediately ignite.

SpaceX has been working on the SuperDraco thruster for the better part of a decade. Back in June 2012, Elon Musk tweeted this photo, saying, "Just fired our SuperDraco escape rocket engine at full ...

Two SuperDraco engines. Dragon 2 is outfitted with eight SuperDraco engines. SpaceX on Flickr Although other spacecraft have what is called a launch escape system that a crew could use to abort in ...

SpaceX has completed design testing of its SuperDraco engines, which, as a key element of the Crew Dragon's launch abort system (LAS), would be responsible for carrying a crew of astronauts out of ...

SuperDraco's engine chamber is a 3-D-printed part, made from a nickel-chromium alloy known by its designer, Special Metals of New Hartford, New York, as Inconel.

SpaceX revealed yesterday, July 15, the cause of the explosion that destroyed one of its Crew Dragon spacecraft – and delayed its first launch of humans to at least the end of 2019.

The SuperDraco engines are designed to accelerate Dragon away from the F9 launch vehicle in the event of an emergency after liftoff. ...

SpaceX's SuperDraco engine is designed to go from 0 to 100 mph in 1.2 seconds and will also power the Crew Dragon's emergency launch escape system.