As a complete piece, the Falcon 9 fairing, which holds the payload, is around 13 meters (42.6 feet) tall and 5 meters (16.3 feet) wide, and tips the scales at around 1,000 kilograms (2,205 pounds).

SpaceX has recycled previously flown fairings before, but Sunday’s launch marked the first time this was done for a Falcon Heavy, a rocket that’s basically three Falcon 9s strapped together.

The payload fairing will open into four separate sections, release the second stage, and then close again before landing back on Earth with the first stage. Although Beck said it was entirely ...

The net-equipped SpaceX boat GO Ms. Tree snagged half of a falling payload fairing Tuesday (Aug. 18), shortly after a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched 58 Starlink internet satellites and three ...

Together, the two pieces of the payload fairing measure nearly 43 feet tall (13 meters) and 17 feet (5 m) wide and weigh more than 2,200 lbs. (about 1,000 kilograms).

Hanwha Aerospace has begun upgrading the payload fairing of South Korea’s Nuri rocket to make it viable for commercial satellite launches. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KAA) had initially ...

A fair dinkum disaster Updated Australia's first homegrown rocket launch has been delayed after the vehicle's fairing unexpectedly deployed on the launchpad.… The maiden launch of the Queensland ...

SpaceX has managed a first – catching both halves of the fairing used on one of its Falcon 9 rocket launches, according to CEO and founder Elon Mus k. The fairing is a two-piece protective cover ...

The 6,000-pound GOES-T weather satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, was placed inside the fairing at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, about 10 miles from the launch ...