The rocket&aposs nose cone was meant to be caught by two drone ships after detaching from the spacecraft, but they narrowly missed, and the nose cone fell into the sea.
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SpaceX has also begun catching the rocket's expensive nose cone.
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In fact, the car is already enclosed in its nose cone.
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Additionally, SpaceX was not able to catch its rocket's nose cone.
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But Musk said SpaceX will attempt to refurbish the nose cone.
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The nose cone of the Falcon Heavy and its outer boosters.
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The fairing is the bulbous nose cone on top of the rocket.
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Upon landing, the rocket's nose cone split in two places as planned.
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Breakingviews Alaska Air is paying through the nose cone for Virgin America.
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This also marked the first time SpaceX used a previously flown nose cone.
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Yeah to catch the nose cone when it's falling back from space. Okay.
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During the webcast, the SpaceX commentator indicated that the nose cone was jettisoned properly.
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That&aposs why the nose cone is also referred to as the fairing halves.
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Once in space, the nose cone breaks in half and falls back to Earth.
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Unlike the I-PACE, the Model 3 has no grille — just a smooth nose cone.
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With its nose cone in place, Mk1 may stand nearly 180 feet (55 meters) tall.
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The company will also try to land the Falcon 9's nose cone in the Atlantic.
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The rocket's nose cone, or fairing, is the bulbous structure that encases the payload during launch.
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The initial strike to the ground, when the nose cone hit it, I jammed my back.
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The size of the nose cone ultimately limits the size of what you can launch into space.
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The payload for the mission — Musk's red Tesla roadster — has been enclosed in the rocket's nose cone.
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The broadcaster posted a picture showing the plane resting on its front with a broken nose cone.
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Certainly, a nose cone with basketball-court-width diameter is larger than that of any planned rocket's.
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The photos also revealed that the Hwasong-15 has a rounder nose cone than the Hwasong-14.
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A SpaceX launch on Monday went perfectly, except for one detail: The rocket lost its nose cone.
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"The damaged nose cone has been sent to a maintenance facility to undergo additional evaluation," Delta adds.
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When the Falcon 9 reached space today, its nose cone fell away, and the satellites began to emerge.
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"It's mostly empty space in there," says Rinehart, referring to the nose cone on top of the rocket.
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From the pictures, the biggest missing pieces look to be the payload and nose cone at the top.
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Mr. Steven is specifically focused on catching the nose cone of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket following a launch.
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This UAV, fired by Yemen into Saudi Arabia, carries explosives in its nose cone to ram into targets.
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This time, Elon Musk's company aimed to land the $6 million nose cone into a giant ocean net.
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Days before, hail had bashed in the nose cone of a passing airline on its way to Santiago.
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In the footage, the nose cone nearly lands on SpaceX's recovery boat, but ultimately, it falls into the water.
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A major asset to New Glenn is its large faring — the nose cone that protects the payload during launch.
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The vehicle was mostly completed in February, though its nose cone was quickly blown off by powerful Texas winds.
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The company is expected to attempt to catch the fairing — the bulbous nose cone on top of the rocket.
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In January, he shared photos of a shiny Starhopper (though 50-mph winds later blew off its nose cone).
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After that, two of the company's modified boats will try to catch the rocket's nose cone with giant nets.
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Image quality is grainy but last time we saw the NRV (bi-conic) nose cone was on a ER-Scud. pic.twitter.
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SpaceX did not provide coverage of the payload's deployment, but confirmed that the nose cone surrounding the satellite did separate successfully.
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Legendary programmer John Carmack's rocket company attempted to use a ballute in 2012 to return a rocket body and nose cone.
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However, SpaceX was forced to scrap that launch attempt to do extra testing on the rocket's nose cone, or payload fairing.
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The successful stunt comes after a year and a half of trying and failing to catch a nose cone after launch.
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To do so, it would need to make a warhead compact and light enough to fit into a missile's nose cone.
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Schmerler pointed out the telemetry antenna on the missile's nose cone, which sends data on the test back to the ground.
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The launch will, however, include an attempted recovery of the nose cone fairing that protects the satellite during the ascent phase.
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The company also plans to catch part of the rocket's nose cone after launch, using one of its net-wielding boats.
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SpaceX is also is expected to attempt to catch the fairing, which is the bulbous nose cone on top of the rocket.
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It really does operate like a phased array radar, the kind that would be in the nose cone of a fighter jet. . .
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Once the rocket is in space, the nose cone, or payload fairing, splits in half and the pieces fall back to Earth.
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Subsequently, no one got to see the separation of the nose cone, or watch the satellite embedded within being deployed into orbit.
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Furthermore, its less blunt nose cone could slow down the speed, and reduce the debilitating heat of a descending re-entry vehicle.
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Also known as the payload fairing, the nose cone is the bulbous structure that surrounds the satellite at the top of the rocket.
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But the nose cone of Karam's car came down out of the sky and struck Wilson in the helmet in a fluke accident.
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On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted out a photo of 226 satellites loaded into the fairing, or nose cone, of his company's Falcon rocket.
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If I think about, you know, the nose cone of the Concord, for example, or the Eiffel Tower or the Automium in Brussels.
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A video recorded by a passenger shows how a metal nose cone was bouncing inside the engine as the aircraft was in the air.
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It probably will be manufacturing the second stages of the rockets, or the rocket's nose cone, or fairing, which protects the satellites during launch.
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Video taken by a passenger showed part of the engine glowing red, and the inlet nose cone of the engine detached from the rest.
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Users can get a better appreciation for the different components of a missile, from the nose cone to the body and everything in between.
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On that same historic March flight, SpaceX successfully landed parts of the nose cone via parachutes, the first step toward reusing them in the future.
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The main engine burn went as planned, as did stage separation and the separation of the nose cone that encases the payload, according to Beck.
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The company tried the trick for the first time in February, but the nose cone piece just missed the boat by a few hundred yards.
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While the video is painful to watch, it suggests that SpaceX may soon be able to perform a successful nose cone recovery after an upcoming mission.
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The piece of equipment is called a "fairing," or more colloquially a "nose cone," which protects satellites as they are launched into space, according to SpaceX.
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The nose cone won't be necessary until later anyway, when it will encase the rocket's payload and handle the crushing aerodynamic forces of higher-altitude tests.
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Simplifying the dimensions of the first-generation Starship into a cylinder (and ignoring its aerodynamic nose cone) gives a finished volume of about 7.5 million liters.
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A nose cone from the jet was the size of a bowling ball and the rest of the debris was no larger than a ball cap.
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Sometimes the nose cone is simply used to protect the satellite until it reaches orbital speed before it then separates from the rest of the rocket.
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Stenciled in at the base of the nose cone were the words "Have Ball, Will Orbit," an homage to the television Western program Have Gun, Will Travel.
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New York (CNN Business)SpaceX just shared some footage from a successful attempt to recapture part of a rocket's nose cone after it plunged into the ocean.
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It's a problem that a few space experts refer to as the "tyranny of the fairing" — referring to the nose cone at the top of a rocket.
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However, the Zuma webcast did not broadcast the separation of the nose cone, which surrounds the satellite during launch, nor did it show the satellite being deployed.
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The fairing, essentially the rocket's nose cone, is the covering on top of the payload that makes the spacecraft aerodynamic as it speeds through the Earth's atmosphere.
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The aircraft circled over the Irish Sea before making the emergency landing and coming to rest with its nose cone on the tarmac at Belfast International Airport.
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A few years later, the Model S was slightly revamped, with the biggest change being the loss of the nose cone that cleaned up the front fascia.
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The launch was originally scheduled for November, but was postponed for additional analysis of the nose cone that protects the payload during its passage through the atmosphere.
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And it may be: The sphere is supposedly a nuclear weapon, shrunken to fit inside the nose cone of one of the country's growing arsenal of missiles.
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The top nose cone of the Starship Mk1 was still attached to a crane at this point, too, before that supporting structure was removed sometime before morning.
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However, the company says it has increased the size of the vehicle's nose cone, or payload fairing, making it able to hold twice the volume as originally planned.
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Also known as the payload fairing, the nose cone is an earplug-shaped casing that sits on the top of the rocket, shielding the vehicle's payload during launch.
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The Aviation Herald has reported that a Boeing 737 jet carrying 80 passengers in Mozambique collided with a drone on Thursday, causing significant damage to the nose cone.
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The water-tower-like Starhopper, however, is much shorter: In January, strong winds toppled the rocket's nose cone, so SpaceX decided to do the first hop without it.
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SpaceX will also try to catch the Falcon 9's nose cone — or fairing — the bulbous structure on top of the rocket that shields the satellites during launch.
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"Under the Shadow" is being sold as a horror film, and understandably so; there are a few nasty surprises that will bop you right on the nose cone.
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Police are investigating a report that on April 17th a British Airways flight from Geneva was hit on its nose cone by a drone as it approached Heathrow airport.
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The 10-second video posted by Musk shows the view from inside the Starship's cargo bay, with the camera looking upward at the inside of the rocket's nose-cone.
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Unfortunately the recovery of the nose cone won't be something that you can watch live, but it'll still be interesting to hear if they have any better luck this time.
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The Ultra Rocket was designed with a nose cone larger than the eye socket of a child to prevent injuries in the case the toy is misused, the company said.
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The company won't be recovering its rocket today, but it will try to capture part of the vehicle's nose cone — the bulbous payload fairing that surrounds the satellites during launch.
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After the nose cone hit, it fell back like a hammer, all the weight came back down and put all of the force to the back part of my spine.
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After launching its Falcon 73 rocket from California this morning, SpaceX used a giant net to try to recover the rocket's nose cone as it fell down in the Pacific Ocean.
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The first-time experiment failed, however: one of the pieces of the nose cone missed the net, which was attached to a ship, and landed intact on the sea surface instead.
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So SpaceX has equipped its latest nose cone with a guidance system and thrusters, tiny engines that help guide the pieces through the atmosphere when they break away from the rocket.
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Based on coordinates provided by North Korea to the International Maritime Organization, the first stage and nose cone of the rocket will drop off in waters between South Korea and China.
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The video of the catch, shared by CEO Elon Musk, shows the nose cone, or payload fairing, leisurely falling into a net attached to one of SpaceX's boats named Ms. Tree.
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SpaceX recovered a nose cone last year during a launch, but it has a new plan for fairing retrieval that should make it more repeatable and reliable to get these things back.
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Last night, SpaceX successfully caught half of the nose cone of its Falcon 9 rocket for a second time, and we finally got some footage of the (very slow) save at sea.
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The company already built a sub-scale demonstrator without a nose cone to test the new engines it's working on for Starship, and demonstrated those working successfully for controlled low-altitude flight.
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A new video, released by the company on Twitter, shows a recent drop test of the rocket's nose cone, the bulbous shell that shields the vehicle's satellite and then breaks away during flight.
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SpaceX caught the half of the fairing, or nose cone, of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday, passing another milestone as the company seeks to consistently reuse an expensive part of its rocket.
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And a little while afterward, SpaceX will also try to catch the Falcon 9's nose cone, or payload fairing, the bulbous structure that surrounds the satellites at the top of the rocket.
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While SpaceX has been fairly consistent with landing its rockets after each flight, the company has just started seeing some success with catching the rocket's nose cone, also known as the payload fairing.
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Like the previous launch by SpaceX, there will be an attempt to catch part of the nose cone, called the fairing, something that's typically seen as expendable despite its roughly $6 million price tag.
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Musk said in a separate tweet that the Falcon Heavy's nose cone, or fairing, which protects the satellite during launch, was also safely recovered after it parachuted to a soft landing in the ocean.
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After the passenger jet was on the ground and its 80 passengers disembarked, authorities examined the damage and concluded that the crumpled side of the nose cone was in fact caused by a drone.
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Following the launch, SpaceX will attempt to recover the Falcon 9 rocket and nose cone by landing the rocket on a drone ship and using parachutes to slow down fairings before they hit the Atlantic.
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Meanwhile, Musk's SpaceX caught the nose cone of its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in the net of a boat, as the company seeks to consistently reuse an expensive part of its rocket.
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After launching its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket this evening, SpaceX caught part of the vehicle's nose cone when it fell back to Earth — the first time the company has ever pulled off such a feat.
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The video, recorded by a passenger and broadcast on local TV, shows a nose cone from the engine detached from its main body, while a glowing orange ring can be seen at the engine's center.
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It's a trailer that speaks in code to people who have sentimental attachments to things like a Marlboro color scheme on a Honda-powered car, or a graceful red nose cone over a simple front wing.
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SpaceX had one more victory this evening in its historic reuse of a rocket: it also landed the nose cone on top of the rocket that surrounds the payload to keep it safe, called a fairing.
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Ideally, once one of these rocket lands, SpaceX will turn it horizontal, attach a new upper stage and nose cone on top, turn it vertical on the launchpad, fill it with propellant, and then launch it again.
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Your GoPro HERO 3+, 4, and 5 are protected within a foam enclosure inside the AER's nose cone, and are recessed so that when it lands there's no risk of the lens or housing getting scratched up.
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The investigators said they had found a missile nose cone and fin by sifting through thousands of pieces of debris from the crash scene, listened to about 150,000 intercepted telephone calls and examined half a million photographs.
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The rocket&aposs nose cone (otherwise known as its fairing halves) was supposed to be caught by two drone ships — named Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief – waiting in the Atlantic Ocean, equipped with large, stretched-out sheets.
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At max dynamic air pressure, where the force on the rocket is the greatest, we're a bit worried about ice falling from the upper stage onto the boosters and it would kind of cannonball through the nose cone.
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SpaceX will attempt to recover the first stage of the rocket by having it land on a drone ship, and the nose cone will, hopefully, get a gentle parachute-assisted splashdown in the Atlantic, where it too can be retrieved.
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The nose cone resembles that of the KN-08 ICBM the North is believed to be developing, and the lofted trajectory tests re-entry by putting the missile through extra stress, said Joshua Pollack of the U.S.-based Non-proliferation Review.
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But on March 210th pictures appeared in the North Korean media of what appeared to be a nose-cone from a KN-238 placed on an engine test stand one and a half metres beneath an ignited Scud rocket motor.
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The nose cone resembles that of the KN-08 ICBM the North is believed to be developing, and the lofted trajectory tests re-entry by putting the missile through extra stress, said Joshua Pollack of the U.S.-based Nonproliferation Review.
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North Korean state media published photos Sunday of President Kim Jong Un inspecting a peanut-shaped device in front of a diagram, which led analysts to suspect it could be fitted into the nose cone of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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The northeast Asian nation has conducted more than 20 missile tests, fired missiles from submarines, tested a rocket nose cone for its ability to withstand the heat of re-entry, and claimed its first hydrogen bomb test — all in the last year.
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To that end, SpaceX is also attempting to recover and reuse the payload fairings—the protective nose cone that shields the rocket's cargo as it travels through the atmosphere—with the help of a new West Coast based recovery vehicle dubbed Mr. Steven.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday began to examine the suspected nose cone of a North Korean rocket that washed up on a Japanese beach hoping to glean information on the reclusive state's ballistic missile program a day after it test-launched two more missiles.
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To the contrary, the North Korean leader has tried to portray his nuclear program as unstoppable and nonnegotiable, posing by a picture of what the North's official news agency on Sunday called a hydrogen bomb that could be fitted into the nose cone of the ICBMs tested last month.
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" The impact: A QF-16 aerial target aircraft was "heavily damaged," according to Defense News, "with its front nose-cone sheared off, as well as a hangar with an F-22 inside and its roof largely missing... as many as ten F-22s may have been damaged by the storm.
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And then, depending on its destination and how big the satellite is, the site will help you calculate the size of your payload fairing — the nose cone that encases the satellite on the top of the rocket — as well as how many additional boosters you're going to need for thrust.
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"I wanted to take the exhibit off-the-walls and make it more personal for visitors to the gallery — bring these otherworldly weapons a bit closer to home as most people have never been inside a B-52, or seen a nuclear warhead nose cone, or been in an underground missile bunker," Buehler said.
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The red, white and blue item, believed to be half of the nose cone designed to protect the rocket's payload, was found on a beach in western Japan last Thursday and is suspected to come from a long-range, three-stage rocket fired by North Korea on Feb 7 that flew over Japan's southwest Okinawa island chain.
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Read more: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 carrying Spacecom AMOS-17 satellite after explosion destroyed first one in 2016Musk's video captured the moment that the rocket's fairing — a nose cone used to protect the satellite payload — fell back to earth and was rescued by a boat, named Ms. Tree, carrying a huge net in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The launch included the re-use of a twice-flown Falcon 9 booster stage, which it recovered again with a landing at sea aboard one of its droneship landing pads, and a recovery attempt of both halves of the nose cone fairing that protects the spacecraft's cargo and that is shed before the upper stage reaches its target orbit.
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