Naib> И про спасение обтекателей что-то не слышно в последнее время, не исключено что на него забили и просто оптимизировали производство.
Журналисты ленятся. Только сообщают во время пуска если была подготовка, да и то не всякий раз.
Вот месяц назад:
"Two braking burns slowed the rocket for landing on the drone ship “A Shortfall Of Gravitas” around 400 miles (650 kilometers) downrange approximately nine minutes after liftoff.
The Falcon 9’s reusable payload fairing jettisoned during the second stage burn.
A recovery ship was also on station in the Atlantic to retrieve the two halves of the nose cone after they splash down under parachutes."
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 4-36 mission launched SpaceX’s next batch of 54 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter.
Fifty-four Starlink internet satellites fastened to a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, continuing SpaceX’s deployments for a broadband network reaching into an ever-expanding market linking rural households, ships, commercial airplanes, and Ukrainian military forces in their fight against Russia.
// Дальше — spaceflightnow.com
А через три дня бустер ушёл с концами, а обтекатель всё-таки собирались спасти:
"Eutelsat and SpaceX agreed to expend the Falcon 9 booster, designated B1049 in SpaceX’s rocket fleet, to send the Eutelsat 10B satellite into a higher orbit. The booster was not fitted with landing legs or other recovery hardware.
SpaceX still planned to recover the Falcon 9’s payload fairing with a ship dispatched far downrange from Cape Canaveral."
Despite a bleak weather forecast, SpaceX took advantage of a break in cloud cover over Cape Canaveral Tuesday night to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with the Eutelsat 10B satellite, a high-throughput relay platform to beam in-flight WiFi signals and maritime data services across a coverage zone from the North Atlantic to the Middle East.
The Falcon 9 rocket was powered by a first stage booster making its 11th and final flight. SpaceX did not attempt to recover the booster, giving Eutelsat 10B a ride to as high of an orbit as possible to speed up its entry into service next year.
// Дальше — spaceflightnow.com
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