SpaceX Recovered Falcon Heavy Nose Cone, Plans to Re-fly it This Year
https://www.space.com/spacex-reuse-payload-fairing-starlink-launch.htmlSpaceX plans to check off another reusable-rocket milestone soon.
SpaceX plans to check off another reusable-rocket milestone soon.
The company, which routinely lands and re-flies first-stage boosters, recovered the payload fairing during yesterday's Falcon Heavy megarocket launch and plans to employ it on another mission in 2019, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said.
"Both fairing halves recovered. Will be flown on Starlink mission later this year," Musk said via Twitter yesterday (April 11), where he posted photos of the space hardware.
Half of the payload fairing that protected the Arabsat-6A satellite during the second-ever
launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket sits on a recovery ship on April 11, 2019.
