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Watch SpaceX catch a rocket nose cone in a giant net on a ship

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Geekz Snow
Watch SpaceX catch a rocket nose cone in a giant net on a ship

SpaceX has pretty much perfected the art of landing a 40-meter-tall, 20-ton booster back on terra firma.

It’s all part of the private space company’s effort to build a reusable rocket system aimed at cutting the cost of space travel.

Earlier this week, SpaceX successfully deployed a $250 million AMOS-17 communications satellite for Israeli firm Spacecom using its Falcon 9 rocket as the delivery vehicle.

As the rocket deployed the satellite, the fairing — the cone at the top of the rocket that holds the payload — detached as planned, before falling back to Earth in two parts.

SpaceX is currently using a giant net on a single ship, called Ms. Tree (formerly Mr. Steven), to catch one of the fairing pieces.

This means it’ll be able to keep the entire fairing out of the corrosive seawater and also protect it from impact damage.

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