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 ...

Rocket landings aren't the only aspect of SpaceX's reuse program. The company also commonly recovers and re-flies its payload fairings, the clamshell coverings that protect satellites during launch, ...

GO Ms. Tree brought some precious cargo back to port Thursday (June 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — ...

A SpaceX first-stage booster launched and landed for a record sixth time on Tuesday, August 18. It was also the 100th SpaceX launch since 2006 when its first Falcon 1 rocket soared skyward. This ...

Part of the SpaceX mission has been to create reusable rockets that make spaceflight cheaper, and it has become routine to see the company’s booster rockets return safely to Earth. With today’s launch ...

The maiden launch of the Queensland-based Gilmour Space's Eris-1 rocket had already been scrubbed once last week, owing to "an issue in the ground support system," but it was all systems go for ...

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 ...

See a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing separate and expose a batch of Starlink satellites to the vacuum of space. Cameras aboard both halves of the fairing captured the footage. Credit: Space.com | footage ...