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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the deck of the ship, shrouded in a blue tarp, sat the first-ever air-caught payload fairing. The fairing was plucked out of the sky early Tuesday morning (June 25) by SpaceX's net-equipped ...

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 ...

Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) delivered the payload fairing, the top of the new medium-lift European rocket Vega-C, which will launch tomorrow. Beyond Gravity also produced the launcher ...

RUAG Space is the world’s leading supplier of payload fairings made of composite materials. In addition to Ariane 5, Europe’s small launcher, Vega, and the American launcher, Atlas V-500, also ...