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 ...
The payload section of the H3 rocket being installed on top of the second stage before its unsuccessful launch Dec. 22. Credit: JAXA WASHINGTON — An H3 launch failure in December may have been caused ...
A little more than a year ago, a snippet of video that wasn’t supposed to go public made its way onto United Launch Alliance’s live broadcast of an Atlas V rocket launch carrying three classified ...
Rocket Lab’s latest milestone on its path to a reusable medium-lift rocket is not a booster landing, but a nose cone that behaves more like a mechanical creature than a disposable shell. With its ...
Last Thursday, SpaceX performed its first full-blown fairing recovery test during the Falcon 9 launch of PAZ and two Starlink demonstration satellites. The attempt involved a new addition to the ...
A Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 26 with 60 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites May 26 on a ...
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