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 ...

SpaceX has launched with the debuting of an upgraded payload fairing for the Falcon ... the beginning of the month. The heavy-lift vehicle, based on the Falcon 9, performed successfully and ...

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 ...

Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are the only rockets currently ... About a minute into the burn, Falcon 9’s payload fairing separated from around Hispasat 30W-6 at the nose of the rocket, exposing ...

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.

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 ...

The payload, in this case the NOAA satellite, is encased in fairings to shield it ... With three of these Falcon 9 rockets, ...

SpaceX launched a classified payload ... the two fairing halves. As reported in Next Spaceflight, the two side boosters and the center core are newly built components. The Falcon Heavy is ...