SpaceX will try to double its recent run of success in catching falling payload fairings. The company will soon start employing a second net-equipped boat during orbital launches, in an attempt to ...

When a rocket launches with some payload (like a satellite), it needs a fairing. The fairing, essentially the rocket's nose cone, is the covering on top of the payload that makes the spacecraft ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SpaceX just plucked another payload fairing out of the sky, and you can see video of the dramatic ...

Elon Musk wanted to recycle the nose cone from the latest launch, so he sent a boat named Mr. Steven with a "catcher's mitt" to try to snag it. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric ...

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Amid much fanfare, SpaceX started landing its Falcon 9 rockets in 2015, and it began reusing them less than two years later. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, with nine engines and the bulk of ...

SpaceX has managed to do another thing that seemed audacious and highly unlikely after a few early botched attempts. It used a ship at sea to catch the falling nosecone that shielded the cargo aboard ...

The catch was the second ever for GO Ms. Tree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. GO Ms. Tree now has two epic catches on her resume ...