"View from the active and passive halves of a payload fairing during a recent Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink," SpaceX officials ...

The rocket’s upper stage released its payload ... Falcon 9. Unlike the booster landings, which the company broadcasts on its launch webcasts, the fairing recoveries take place out of view.

SpaceX has launched with the debuting of an upgraded payload fairing for ... which is based on the Falcon 9 but with two additional first-stage boosters strapped either side of a reinforced ...

As it turns out, though, that wasn’t the only part of the Falcon 9 rocket to make its ... The nose cone, also known as the fairing, protects the rocket’s payload (in last night’s case ...

June 25, 2019 Payload fairings protect ... modified Falcon 9 first stages, with a second stage topping the central booster). For example, the Heavy's two side boosters already had one flight ...

A new SpaceX video has captured a striking view of ... like payload fairing covering the CSG-2 satellite popped free and fell away. The payload fairing makes up the Falcon 9 nose cone and protects ...

Elon Musk tweeted that both SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload fairings were recovered for the first time. They will be reused on the Starlink satellite launch mission. The two side boosters and ... Those ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a mysterious government ... Running a month and a half late because of payload fairing issues and subsequent rescheduling, the booster's nine first ...

Nearly three months have passed since SpaceX flew a rocket—the company last launched the AMOS-17 satellite on August 6 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket ... to reuse a payload fairing for the first ...

A close-up view of the Falcon 9 payload fairing half. SpaceX via Twitter The GRACE-FO spacecraft will help researchers better understand rising sea levels and other changes in Earth's water cycle ...