Blue Origin graphic showing New Glenn with a 7-meter payload fairing. Credit: Blue Origin. The third New Shepard has modifications for improved reusability, he said, such as access panels that ...

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

Swiss manufacturer Ruag Space will build composite payload fairings for United Launch Alliance ... as well as a much lower cost and more affordable access to space,” said Tory Bruno, president ...

SpaceX plans to check off another reusable-rocket milestone soon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX plans to check off ...

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 ...

Hanwha Aerospace has begun upgrading the payload fairing of South Korea’s Nuri rocket to make it viable for commercial satellite launches. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KAA) had initially ...

And now its nose cone catching fleet is retired. A rocket's payload fairing is a clamshell-like protective shell that shrouds the rocket's payload as the vehicle soars through the Earth's atmosphere.

After launching its Falcon 9 rocket from California this morning, SpaceX used a giant net to try to recover the rocket’s nose cone as it fell down in the Pacific Ocean. The first-time experiment ...

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 ...

Topics include briefs on payload fairing, manifesting, loads, adapters, shock absorption, and acoustics. They also mention “novel” payloads, which means the stars really are the limit as to ...

And that could provide some savings for SpaceX. This hardware, also known as a payload fairing, costs about $6 million to make for each flight, according to the company. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is now encapsulated in the SpaceX payload fairings ... process as it marks the last direct access to the spacecraft and completion ...