Liquid Rocket Propellants - History - Methane

Methane

In November 2012, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a new direction for propulsion side of SpaceX: developing methane/LOX rocket engines. SpaceX had previously used only LOX/RP-1 for all of their primary propulsion engines.

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