Liquid-fuel rocket engines that lifted the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Falcon rockets. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the engine a rocket engine. It excludes air-breathing jet engines. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members. It is one of the groups under the Space and Rocket Propulsion subcategory of the Transport atlas, which has its own browse page listing every group and member.
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Rocketdyne F-1 (Wikipedia)
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The F-1 is a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne. The engine uses a gas-generator cycle developed in the United States in the late 1950s and was used in the Saturn V rocket in the 1960s and early 1970s.
RS-25 (Wikipedia)
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The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used on the Space Launch System.
SpaceX Merlin (Wikipedia)
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Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly used on the Falcon 1.
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