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April 1, 2023

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[ March 30, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX countdown at Vandenberg aborted at T-minus 3 seconds Falcon 9
[ March 29, 2023 ] First flight of astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft slips to July Atlas 5
[ March 29, 2023 ] First launch for Pentagon’s own mega-constellation set for Thursday Falcon 9
[ March 29, 2023 ] SpaceX launches another bundle of Starlink internet satellites Mission Reports
[ March 28, 2023 ] Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule returns to Earth without a crew Mission Reports

SpaceX shares video of first double fairing catch

July 21, 2020 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s two fast-maneuvering payload fairing recovery vessels were in the right place at the right time Monday to catch both halves of the nose shroud jettisoned by a Falcon 9 rocket climbing into orbit with South Korea’s Anasis 2 military communications satellite.

Newly-released videos show SpaceX payload fairing coming back to Earth

July 3, 2019 Stephen Clark

New videos released Wednesday by SpaceX show the payload fairing from the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket plunging back into the atmosphere after launch June 25, trailing a wake of haunting blue super-heated plasma before unfurling a parafoil and landing in the net of an offshore recovery ship.