Watch SpaceX catch its nosecone fairing with ease

[Mike Wehner]

• SpaceX launched another 58 new Starlink satellites into Earth orbit last night, and it managed to catch one of its nosecone fairings as a bonus.
• The fairings cost as much as $6 million each, so it's a wise business decision to attempt to recover them when possible.
• SpaceX now has over 650 Starlink satellites in orbit.

SpaceX's Starlink satellite horde got a little bit larger on Tuesday with the successful launch of another Falcon 9 and the deployment of 58 new satellites into Earth orbit. The launch and deployment went off without a hitch, and as an added bonus, SpaceX was able to recover part of its rocket's nosecone, which has been a difficult thing for the company to pull off.

The two nosecone halves, called fairings, cover the payload bay and tumble back down to Earth after the spacecraft reaches space and deploys whatever it is carrying. In a first-of-its-kind video released by Elon Musk, the fairing catch was captured by a camera drone that provides us with some stunning footage.

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