SpaceX will try to double its recent run of success in catching falling payload fairings. The company will soon start employing a second net-equipped boat during orbital launches, in an attempt to ...

“We’ve got a special boat to catch the fairing… it’s like a giant catcher’s mitt in boat form,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told reporters of the ship following the launch of Falcon Heavy earlier this month.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX made history two years ago when a net-equipped boat snagged a falling piece of hardware out of the sky. And now its nose cone catching fleet is retired. A rocket's ...

Elon Musk wanted to recycle the nose cone from the latest launch, so he sent a boat named Mr. Steven with a "catcher's mitt" to try to snag it. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric ...

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