SpaceX just shared some footage from a successful attempt to recapture part of a rocket's nose cone after it plunged into the ocean. The results are stunning.
New York SpaceX just shared some footage from a successful attempt to recapture part of a rocket's nose cone after it plunged into the ocean. The results are stunning.
The maneuver last month marked the first time after a launch that a piece of the rocket's cone, which is also called a fairing, was recovered. The fairing guided itself into a giant net hoisted up by a crew boat. SpaceX has been trying to do this for more than a year. The company shared some footage this week from a camera on board the fairing during its descent.
— SpaceX July 3, 2019 Also visible in the footage is a parachute — shaped like a giant stick of gum — that the fairing deployed.Read MoreA second video captured by a camera aboard the net-wielding crew boat, named Ms. Tree, shows one of the fairing halves land gently on its target.Landing on Ms. Tree pic.twitter.com/4lhPWRpaS9
— Elon Musk July 4, 2019 The fairing rests on the top of the rocket, and it acts as a shield for satellites that SpaceX launches for its customers. Once the rocket is in space, it splits into two and falls away. After most rocket launches, the fairing halves are left to plummet back to Earth, where the ocean becomes their graveyard.SpaceX's rocket fairings costs about $6 million, CEO Elon Musk has said.
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