began working with NASA in 2010 to design tooling for a 1/6 th-arc SLS fairing segment. Each segment measures 8.5m by 5.5m (28 ft by 18 ft), and six of them will be assembled to form the barrel ...

1/10th scale petal (ogive and upper barrel) tool for NASA SLS payload fairing made using No Oven, No Autoclave (NONA) materials. SOURCE: NONA Composites. Last year, I wrote a blog on the No-oven, ...

Ellis intends to disrupt the long-standing aerospace practice of using fixed tooling to manufacture ... and the second stage will retain its payload fairing after satellite separation.

The company has been busy over the past decade. For example, it developed the 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) Eris and built a ...

Every fairing (the external part of the launch vehicle covering the payload) is necessarily custom ... “It’s fixed tooling, giant machines that look impressive but only make one shape or ...

Kyle Williams Planning for the integration begins years in advance, as engineers from the launch company and the launch customer design tooling and support systems to mate the payload to the ...

But the public saw video of the clamshell-like payload fairing falling away from the Atlas V rocket as it fired downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2023. It wasn't pretty.

A rocket's nose cone, specifically a payload fairing, is designed to protect the top of the vehicle where its payload is stored as it barrels through the Earth's atmosphere. Once the rocket ...

Nuri’s current payload fairing measures approximately 2.7 meters in diameter and 4 meters in length, which is enough space to carry small satellites. But Hanwha Aerospace sees its size as too ...

The in-space video shows a group of Starlink satellites as two pieces of protective hardware, known as payload fairings, fall away from the Falcon 9 rocket that carried the payload to orbit.

The Ariane 6 payload fairings, up to 20 meters high and 1800 kilograms light, are manufactured by Beyond Gravity at its Emmen site in Switzerland in a state-of-the-art, half-automated process.

“You can see Hera inside the two halves of the fairing.” “Fairing separation.” “And successful payload fairing separation.” “Hera separation confirmed.” “Great view. We’ve got ...