The Falcon 9 will deploy a payload of 21 Starlink internet satellites, which are packed inside the fairing atop the 230-foot rocket. No Central Florida sonic booms are expected. After soaring ...

“Ms. Tree,” will attempt to recover a payload fairing half. The recovery of the Falcon 9 stage is, at this point, fairly routine for SpaceX. The company failed many times in the quest to ...

describing a company philosophy to maximize payload capacity. “When we found a solution for Firefly and ispace’s missions to fly together on the same Falcon 9, it was a no-brainer to put them ...

Although SpaceX has been launching reusable rockets for several years now in the form of the Falcon 9 and Falcon ... size of the fairings the rocket designs use. New Glenn’s payload fairings ...

SpaceX launched the Hisdesat SpainSat Next Generation I via a Falcon 9 rocket out of Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 has become the industry standard ... This is approximately half of New Glenn's maximum payload capacity of 45 tons to low Earth orbit. The first flight is expected to last ...

Elon Musk ’s space company SpaceX successfully caught Falcon 9 ’s rocket head as it fell ... abilities to recover boosters, recovering payload fairings — the rocket’s nose cone which ...