Back in February, the company suffered a rare setback when its attempt to catch a piece of its Falcon 9 rocket — a piece of the nosecone, or fairing, that sits atop the vehicle — fell short.

For the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX didn’t catch the fairings but did recover them promptly from the ocean. Seawater isn’t the best for rocket components, but the company is confident it can ...

"Long road to reusability of Falcon 9 primary boost stage…When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor >100," Musk said on Twitter early Thursday morning, referring to ...

The Falcon 9 will deploy a batch of 23 Starlink internet satellites, which are packed inside the fairing atop the 230 ... released a report outlining a long-term vision for a $2.1 billion ...