A payload fairing or nose fairing is a nose cone used to protect a spacecraft payload against the impact of dynamic pressure and aerodynamic heating during...

performed a controlled landing of the payload fairing into the ocean for the first time. SpaceX was able to recover the fairing half from the water after it landed...

rocket and built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Contraves built the fairing and payload adapters based on designs it used on the Ariane 4. The first Delta...

Falcon 9 v1.1 as well as the Falcon 9 family configured with a payload fairing. The fairing separated without incident during the launch of CASSIOPE as well...

and cylinder apart and thereby pushing the payload fairing halves laterally away from the launcher. The fairing is made of Aluminum alloy featuring acoustic...

flight suggested that the fairing failed to separate. The rocket did not reach orbit, owing to the extra weight of the fairing. Launch vehicle and services...

"punishment" on the way to its destination. Most rocket payloads are fitted within a payload fairing to protect them against dynamic pressure of high-velocity...

7 m (12 ft) payload fairing and US$35 million with a 5.2 m (17 ft) fairing. SpaceX also announced a heavy version of Falcon 9 with a payload capacity of...

4-meter Atlas fairing last flew in 2022. Atlas II rockets flying with a Medium fairing could move the most payload to orbit, as that fairing was the lightest...

fuselage, or into the propeller on a pusher craft. Bicycle fairing Motorcycle fairing Payload fairing Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, Third Edition...

Large fairing. If a vehicle flew using a Medium fairing, the lower mass of the fairing would enable an approximately 135 kg (298 lb) increase in payload capacity...

meters) of the payload fairing and has a value of "4" or "5" for fairing launches and "N" for crew capsule launches (as no payload fairing is used). The...

launches conducted by ILS use two kinds of fairings: PLF-BR-13305 short fairing. PLF-BR-15255 long fairing. Both fairings have a diameter of 4.35 meters. On 7...

TH-12V. The standard payload fairing of the Tianlong-3 has a diameter of 4.2 m, a height of 12 m, and can accommodate payloads with a diameter of up...

2023. "Fairing Recovery List". SpaceXFleet.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2021. "SpaceX's new Fairing Recovery...

Extended payload fairing would reduce the payload capacity by around 45 kg (99 lb) compared to flying with the Large payload fairing. Both fairing options...

satellite payload, a variety of different payload fairings were available. A stretched Delta III 4-meter diameter composite payload fairing was used on...

DGA antenna NISAR Deployment Process NISAR being Integrated with the Payload Fairing of GSLV F16 L-band (1.25 GHz; 24 cm wavelength) polarimetric SAR, to...

carbon-composite payload fairing as the other Minotaur IV variants. A larger 110 in (2.8 m)-diameter composite fairing is also available for larger payloads. To date...

floating platform. Instead of a conventional payload fairing that is jettisoned and recovered at sea, the fairing is integrated into the vehicle, and opens...

manufactures payload fairings for a number of launchers, including the Ariane 6, Atlas V, Terran R, Vega C, and Vulcan Centaur. A payload fairing protects...

vehicle with solid, liquid and cryogenic stages respectively. The payload fairing, which is 7.8 m (26 ft) long and 3.4 m (11 ft) in diameter, protects...

IV M+(4,2) two SRBs, and a 4 m diameter DCSS and payload fairing, the final use of the 4 m fairing. The Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle used three Common...

as the RLV would not required the excess thrust created by the CUS. Payload fairing of PSLV, also referred as its "Heatshield" consists of a conical upper...

affecting the payload fairing, and that they hoped to get Eris back on the pad by June. On 19 May, Adam Gilmour revealed that the issue with the fairing had been...

appearance Bicycle fairing, a type of fairing coverage for bicycles Motorcycle fairing, a type of fairing applied to motorcycles Payload fairing, an aerodynamic...

Starlink demo and new fairing". NASASpaceFlight.com. Musk, Elon [@elonmusk] (22 February 2018). "Missed by a few hundred meters, but fairing landed intact in...

1182 kg mass of fairing, target orbit could not be achieved leaving the combined assembly of PSLV upper-stage (PS4), enclosed payload fairing and trapped...

company completed the payload-fairing (PLF) separation test, validating the two-piece clamshell mechanism that will jettison the fairing once Vikram-1 reaches...

of its ability to carry heavier payloads, Beyond Gravity had to redesign the fairing of the Vega C. The new fairing is 3.3 m (11 ft) in diameter and...