The Falcon 1 rocket roaredits first stage engine during the dramatic five-second firing to demonstratecountdown procedures and ring out equipment bugs at the rebuilt Space LaunchComplex-3 West pad.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., will replace its Falcon 1 rocket by the end of 2010 with the more capable and more expensive Falcon 1e rocket, the company said ...

Falcon 1 is a two stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene powered launch vehicle. The vehicle's main engine is called Merlin, with a SpaceX Kestrel engine powering the booster's second stage.

Tests were conducted at the SpaceX Texas Test Facility near Waco, TX, on a Merlin 1C configured for powering the first stage of a Falcon 1 rocket.

A Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach orbit late Saturday, marking the third unsuccessful attempt for private spaceflight firm SpaceX.

The first launch of the new Falcon 1 rocket is scheduled for 19 December at 1900 GMT, during an eight-hour launch window. Space Exploration Technologies (Space-X), the company that built the ...

SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket was lost on its long-awaited inaugural launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on March 24. The rocket failed shortly after launch from the 7-acre Omelek Island.

The next Falcon 1 launch will carry RazakSat into orbit for Malaysia. If that launch is successful, the larger Falcon 9 rocket will take flight for the first time sometime in Q2 2009.

TacSat-1 was never launched, and SLC-3W never saw a Falcon 1 launch. Ironically, when SpaceX began launches from Vandenberg with the Falcon 9 rocket, it was from the former Titan launch complex.

Privately owned space exploration company SpaceX moments ago successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket. The rocket was developed entirely by SpaceX.

For the third time, privately funded rocket Falcon 1 has failed to reach orbit in a test flight. The US-based company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) attempted to loft Falcon 1 into an ...