All posts tagged "Fairing Recovery"
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7.8KNewsSpaceX ship headed 1000 kilometers out to sea for expendable Falcon 9 launch
Update: SpaceX has called off Monday’s launch attempt for what appears to be technical reasons and will try again on Tuesday, November...
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17.7KNewsSpaceX launches third Falcon 9 rocket in 72 hours, breaks fairing reuse record
In one fell swoop, SpaceX has successfully launched the third Falcon 9 rocket in less than 72 hours, broken payload fairing reusability...
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18.2KNewsSpaceX Starlink launch marks record Falcon fairing reuse, 85th booster landing
Update: SpaceX aced its 28th operational Starlink launch without issue, simultaneously marking a new record for Falcon fairing reuse, the 85th successful...
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24.4KNewsSpaceX orbits 60 more Starlink satellites, recovers booster, and catches fairing halves
SpaceX has successfully orbited another batch of 60 Starlink satellites, landed the Falcon 9 booster that launched it, and caught both halves...
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10.6KNewsSpaceX Falcon 9 booster and first thrice-flown fairing return to port [photos]
In a period of just 12 hours last Friday, SpaceX successfully returned Falcon 9 booster B1058 and two payload fairing halves to...
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23.8KNews(Update: scrubbed) SpaceX’s next Starlink launch to break rocket fairing reuse record
Update: SpaceX says that today’s Starlink-12 launch attempt was scrubbed due to a mysterious “recovery issue.” Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center Pad...
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11.1KNewsSpaceX makes rocket fairing catch look easy with “autopilot” recovery
SpaceX has made Falcon 9 rocket fairing recovery look easy in a video of the latest nosecone catch, published hours after the...
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9.8KNewsSpaceX rocket nosecone catch years in the making caught on camera
In a milestone more than three years in the making, SpaceX has successfully caught both halves of a Falcon 9 rocket’s payload...
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22.5KNewsSpaceX nails second Falcon nosecone recovery in one month
SpaceX has successfully recovered two pairs of Falcon 9 payload fairings (nosecones) – one twice-flown – in one month after twin ships...
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28.7KNewsSpaceX’s next rocket fairing reuse milestone within reach after latest recovery
SpaceX’s next major Falcon 9 fairing reuse milestone is now within reach after the company managed to successfully recover an entire reused...
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22.4KNewsSpaceX shares rare view of Starlink satellites rocketing into space
SpaceX has shared a rare view of its latest batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites rocketing into space atop a Falcon 9...
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16.2KNewsSpaceX may have missed a rocket booster landing but it snagged both nosecone halves
Although SpaceX sadly lost a record-breaking rocket booster and suffered a significant in-flight anomaly during its sixth Starlink launch, the company later...
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18.1KNewsSpaceX's workhorse rocket is almost halfway to reaching ambitious reusability goals
Thanks to a recent cluster of major milestones, SpaceX’s family of Falcon 9 and Heavy rockets are rapidly nearing the halfway point...
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14.5KNewsSpaceX rocket booster makes it back to port after hard drone ship landing
SpaceX has completed its third rocket launch of 2020 and the most recent booster to launch safely returned to Port Canaveral on...
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26.6KNewsSpaceX just caught its first rocket nosecone in 5 months (and the booster landed, too)
One of SpaceX’s net-outfitted recovery ships has just completed the company’s first successful Falcon 9 nosecone (payload fairing) catch in more than...
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14.6KNewsSpaceX wraps up a decade of reusable rocketry with fastest booster recovery yet
SpaceX has completed its 13th and final launch and landing of the year and decade, marked by a Falcon 9 booster’s successful...
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54.7KNewsSpaceX fairing recovery ships return to port with Falcon 9 nosecone and battle scars
Four days after they headed out into the Atlantic Ocean, twin SpaceX fairing recovery ships Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief have returned...
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21.3KNewsSpaceX updates status of record-breaking Falcon 9 fairing recovery attempt
SpaceX has posted an update on its most ambitious Falcon fairing recovery attempt yet, confirming that the company’s twin recovery ships –...
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45.0KNewsSpaceX nails Falcon 9 landing as fairing halves begin journey back to Earth
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed Falcon 9 once again, sending a massive communications satellite on its way to an operational orbit...
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40.2KNewsSpaceX recovery ships head to sea for first 'whole-fairing' catch attempt
After a brisk day-long cruise into the Atlantic Ocean, SpaceX’s twin Falcon fairing recovery ships have reached the general landing area to...
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