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This is a photograph of the rocket propulsion system at the aft end of the recoverable booster stage of the Falcon 9 Space Launch Vehicle. This propulsion system has nine Merlin liquid propellant rocket engines, but only eight of these can be seen in this view. The total take-off thrust at sea level is approximately 1.3 million pounds of thrust force and at orbit altitude (in a vacuum) it is about 1.5 million pounds of thrust. Propellants are liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene. More information about this multiple rocket engine propulsion system can be found in Chapter 11 Section 2 and more information about RP-1 kerosene can be found in Chapter 7. The Falcon space vehicle and the Merlin rocket engines are designed, developed, manufactured, and operated by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, of Hawthorne, California.
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