SpaceX has been experimenting during recent launches with recovering the payload fairing at the top of its Falcon 9 rocket. The fairing is a $6 million shroud that protects the satellite during ...

The payload fairing is a protective shell that shields satellites from the intense aerodynamic forces and heat during the ...

Photo Credit: Beyond Gravity International space supplier Beyond Gravity’s (formerly RUAG Space, Zürich, Switzerland) Launcher Innovation Team is innovating space launches with a payload fairing ...

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 ...

The KN22 did not feature a post-boost vehicle despite the larger payload fairing, which concealed a single reentry vehicle of an unknown weight. Following the launch, the KN22 was described by ...

Catching a fairing (the “nose cone” that protects the payload during launch) is completely different than landing a rocket. Unlike SpaceX’s fancy reusable boosters, fairings aren’t capable ...

The video features some delightful lounge music. SpaceX just plucked another payload fairing out of the sky, and you can see video of the dramatic cosmic catch. The net-equipped SpaceX boat GO Ms ...

The company has been busy over the past decade. For example, it developed the 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) Eris and built a private launch site on the coast of northern Queensland, called the Bowen ...

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 ...

In June as part of the company's landmark Falcon Heavy launch, SpaceX managed to recover half of the payload fairing as it dropped back to Earth. It did so using its vessel named Ms Tree ...

Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space, Zürich, Switzerland) has won an order to produce the carbon fiber payload fairings for ArianeGroup’s (Les Mureaux, France) new Ariane 6 rocket. The new European ...