Blue Origin graphic showing New Glenn with a 7-meter payload fairing. Credit: Blue Origin. The third New Shepard has modifications for improved reusability, he said, such as access panels that ...

At any point during that time, the Space Force can send the companies an alert, kicking off a 60-hour window to transport the payload to ... the main oxidizer access panel, it's a big giant ...

competiti­veness and preserve European autonomous access to space.” The two variants of the Beyond Gravity Payload Fairing offer two different sizes and consist of two half-shells that separate ...

SpaceX plans to check off another reusable-rocket milestone soon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX plans to check off ...

Once the rocket is in space, the nose cone, or payload fairing, splits in half and the pieces fall back to Earth. Typically this hardware isn’t recovered, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been eager ...

But SpaceX may also go for another "first"—by recovering the payload fairing of its rocket. In a Facebook post today, Steve Jurveston, a venture capitalist and SpaceX investor, wrote from ...

Hanwha Aerospace has begun upgrading the payload fairing of South Korea’s Nuri rocket to make it viable for commercial satellite launches. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KAA) had initially ...

And that could provide some savings for SpaceX. This hardware, also known as a payload fairing, costs about $6 million to make for each flight, according to the company. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is now encapsulated in the SpaceX payload fairings ... process as it marks the last direct access to the spacecraft and completion ...

GO Ms. Tree now has two epic catches on her resume. The speedy, net-equipped SpaceX boat plucked a payload fairing out of the sky for the second time ever on Tuesday evening (Aug. 6), during the ...

Topics include briefs on payload fairing, manifesting, loads, adapters, shock absorption, and acoustics. They also mention “novel” payloads, which means the stars really are the limit as to ...

Except it wasn't: "During final checks, an unexpected issue triggered the rocket's payload fairing." The fairing enshrouds the rocket's payload during ascent and is usually jettisoned once the ...