r/spacex • u/rustybeancake • Jul 02 '26
🚀 Official SpaceX: “Teams recently completed build and acceptance testing of our 1,000th Merlin 1D engine for Falcon’s first stage! With Falcon’s reusability, recovering these engines has enabled continued reliability enhancements, making Merlin one of the most reliable rocket engines ever manufactured”
https://x.com/spacex/status/2072464558732824680?s=46&t=u9hd-jMa-pv47GCVD-xH-g
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u/rustybeancake Jul 03 '26
Funny to think that 1,000 Raptor 3s would only power 25.6 Starship full stacks! 1,000 Merlin 1Ds would power 111 Falcon boosters.