Elon Musk tweeted that both SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload fairings were recovered for the first time ... Those are being shown on a Falcon 9 to be reusable for at least four launches and SpaceX has ...

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The company also commonly recovers and re-flies its payload ... photo of the fairing recovery. You may like SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket after ...

SpaceX has launched with the debuting of an upgraded payload fairing for the Falcon ... the beginning of the month. The heavy-lift vehicle, based on the Falcon 9, performed successfully and ...

The launch was also the 40th Falcon 9 mission to fly at least one reused payload fairing half. The company had quietly made regular use of previously flown payload fairings, which deploy ...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off for the first time this year on Sunday, carrying a classified military payload to orbit ... which is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together ...

See a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing separate and expose a batch of Starlink satellites to the vacuum of space. Cameras aboard both ...

The most recent flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ... fairings, which split apart as two halves and fell back to Earth. Stage separation at sunset, followed by second stage engine startup, and ...

The payload fairing meant to house the rocket's precious cargo is itself a veteran of five different Falcon 9 launches. This didn't stop the first stage, now an old man in rocket terms ...

The payload, in this case the NOAA satellite, is encased in fairings to shield it ... With three of these Falcon 9 rockets, the monster Falcon Heavy stands the same height. However, it's much ...

The company also commonly recovers and re-flies its payload fairings, the clamshell coverings ... It was the 18th liftoff for one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket first stages, setting a new ...

SpaceX's in-space video shows a stacked group of Starlink satellites being revealed after two pieces of protective hardware, ...