The company also commonly recovers and re-flies its payload ... photo of the fairing recovery. You may like SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket after ...

A spectacular new video shows a set of SpaceX satellites ready to deploy into space. SpaceX's in-space video shows a stacked group of Starlink satellites being revealed after two pieces of ...

The launch was also the 40th Falcon 9 mission to fly at least one reused payload fairing half. The company had quietly made regular use of previously flown payload fairings, which deploy ...

The payload fairing meant to house the rocket's precious cargo is itself a veteran of five different Falcon 9 launches. This didn't stop the first stage, now an old man in rocket terms ...

SpaceX has successfully launched its thirteenth rocket this year, and its eleventh Falcon 9 (the company also flew two Falcon Heavy missions in 2019). The launch included the re-use of a twice ...

Credit: Craig Vander Galien SANTA FE, N.M. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft Aug. 14 with a diverse payload of science experiments for the International ...

SpaceX has been unable so far to land all three boosters on a Falcon 9 Heavy launch. However, this launch did result in one major victory for SpaceX; it was able to catch the rocket's fairing or ...

Part of SpaceX's overall goal of reusability, the company has redesigned the nose cone for the Falcon 9 that splits into two halves called payload fairings. The new steerable fairings will plummet ...

Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket currently ... produce around 5 million pounds of thrust. A Falcon 9 second stage and payload fairing is attached to the central booster.

The company announced yesterday's planned launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, Zuma spacecraft and its mysterious payload will not ... look at data from recent fairing testing for another customer." ...

Nov. 17 (UPI) --SpaceX launched what has been a top secret mission just before dusk on Sunday, not releasing the contents of its payload and changing its original mission name. The Falcon 9 rocket ...

SpaceX is getting better at saving money by attempting to catch the fairings from its Falcon 9 rocket launches on ships ... The fairing halves protect the payload of a launch and are discarded ...