{"id":109469,"date":"2020-07-03T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-nails-second-falcon-nosecone-recovery-in-one-month"},"modified":"2020-07-03T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:02:46","slug":"spacex-nails-second-falcon-nosecone-recovery-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/spacex-nails-second-falcon-nosecone-recovery-in-one-month","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX nails second Falcon nosecone recovery in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-nails-second-falcon-nosecone-recovery-in-one-month2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has successfully recovered two pairs of Falcon 9 payload fairings (nosecones) \u2013 one twice-flown \u2013 in one month after twin ships GO Ms. Tree and GO Ms. Chief returned to port on July 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Around 45 minutes after Falcon 9 B1060 lifted off for the first time with the US military\u2019s third upgraded GPS III satellite in tow and around 40 minutes after the rocket\u2019s payload fairing deployed, both fairing halves gently splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean just a few miles apart. Lacking their main recovery nets in an odd configuration, Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief both fished one half out of the ocean with smaller secondary nets before placing the fairings on their decks for technicians to secure them.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than two weeks prior, both ships were in the midst of recovering the Starlink-8 mission\u2019s twice-flown fairings from the ocean, safely returning them \u2013 intact \u2013 to shore for the first time since SpaceX began fairing reuse. As SpaceX itself noted at the tail end of its GPS III SV03 webcast, the intact recovery of the mission\u2019s fairing halves all but guarantees that they\u2019ll be reused in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has successfully recovered two pairs of Falcon 9 payload fairings (nosecones) \u2013 one twice-flown \u2013 in one month after twin ships GO Ms. Tree and GO Ms. Chief returned to port on July 2nd. Around 45 minutes after Falcon 9 B1060 lifted off for the first time with the US military\u2019s third upgraded GPS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}