A Merlin rocket engine exploded Sunday at SpaceX's test facilities in Central Texas. ... Testing of the Block 5 Merlin engine will be suspended until the cause of that ignition is found and fixed.

SpaceX's Texas facility was testing an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket engine when it exploded on its stand, inflicting damage that will take weeks to repair.

It was a engine qualification test and no one was injured. The block 5 Falcon 9 will have higher thrust on all of the engines and improvements on landing legs compared to the block 4 Falcon 9 Full ...

The BE-4 — the engine that will power Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur — exploded about 10 seconds into the test, which Blue Origin conducted at ...