Date (UTC) |
Mission |
Target(s) |
Type |
Recovered? |
Reused on |
2022-05-06 |
Starlink 4-17 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-04-29 |
Starlink 4-16 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-04-21 |
Starlink 4-14 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-04-17 |
NROL-85 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
UNCLEAR |
? |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 430 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were new.
- NRC Quest was deployed for this mission.
- It’s unclear whether the recovery was successful or not because nobody took pictures when the ship returned to port.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to NROL-85 launch (Credit: Jack Beyer)
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2022-04-01 |
Transporter-4 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-03-19 |
Starlink 4-12 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-03-09 |
Starlink 4-10 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-03-03 |
Starlink 4-9 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-02-25 |
Starlink 4-11 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
UNCLEAR |
? |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 657 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were reused. One of them previously flew on NROL-108 and Starlink 2-1, while the other one preivously flew on two unspecified missions.
- NRC Quest was deployed for this mission.
- It’s unclear whether the recovery was successful or not because nobody took pictures when the ship returned to port.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to Starlink 4-11 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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2022-02-21 |
Starlink 4-8 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-02-03 |
Starlink 4-7 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-02-02 |
NROL-87 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
UNCLEAR |
? |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 362 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were new.
- NRC Quest was deployed for this mission.
- It’s unclear whether the recovery was successful or not because nobody took pictures when the ship returned to port.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to NROL-87 launch (Credit: NRO)
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to NROL-87 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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2022-01-31 |
CSG-2 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-01-19 |
Starlink 4-6 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-01-13 |
Transporter-3 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2022-01-06 |
Starlink 4-5 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-12-19 |
Türksat 5B |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-12-18 |
Starlink 4-4 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 646 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were reused. One half previously flew on Sentinel 6A and Starlink v1-20, while the other one previously flew on three unspecified missions.
- NRC Quest was deployed for this mission.
- Both fairing halves were recovered from the ocean and brought to Port of Long Beach seemingly intact.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to the Starlink 4-4 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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2021-12-09 |
IXPE |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-14 |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 787 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were new.
- Bob was deployed for this mission.
- Both fairing halves were recovered from the ocean and brought to Port Canaveral in seemingly good condition.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to IXPE launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, begins rollout to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, 2021 (Credit: SpaceX)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, begins rollout to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, 2021 (Credit: SpaceX)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, rolls out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, 2021. IXPE is scheduled to launch no earlier than 1 a.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 9. NASA’s Launch Services Program is managing this launch. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the IXPE mission. Ball Aerospace, headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, manages spacecraft operations with support from the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the Explorers Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 provides range support for this launch. SpaceX is providing the launch vehicle for this mission. The IXPE spacecraft includes three space telescopes with sensitive detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about extremely complex environments in space where gravitational, electric, and magnetic fields are at their limits. The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to IXPE launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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Bob with two recovered fairing halves from the IXPE mission (Credit: LabPadre)
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Bob with two recovered fairing halves from the IXPE mission (Credit: LabPadre)
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2021-12-02 |
Starlink 4-3 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-11-24 |
DART |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-11-13 |
Starlink 4-1 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 682 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were reused. One half previously flew on GPSIII-SV04 and Starlink v1-27, while the other one flew on Starlink v1-25.
- Bob was deployed for this mission (for the first time ever).
- Both fairing halves were recovered from the ocean and brought to Port Canaveral.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to the Starlink 4-1 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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Bob with two recovered fairings from the Starlink 4-1 mission (Credit: NASA Spaceflight)
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2021-09-14 |
Starlink 2-1 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-4 / Starlink 4-11 |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 688 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were reused. One half previously flew on GPSIII-SV03 and Türksat 5A, while the other one flew on NROL-108.
- NRC Quest was deployed for this mission.
- Both fairing halves were recovered from the ocean and brought to Port of Long Beach seemingly intact.
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Starlink satellites being encapsulated into the fairing prior to the Starlink 2-1 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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NRC Quest with two recovered fairings from Starlink 2-1 (Credit: Sam Sun)
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2021-06-16 |
Transporter-2 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
CSG-2 |
|
2021-06-16 |
GPSIII-SV05 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Türksat 5B |
|
2021-06-06 |
SXM-8 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-05-26 |
Starlink v1-28 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-7 |
|
2021-05-15 |
Starlink v1-26 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / NO |
Starlink 4-8 |
|
2021-05-09 |
Starlink v1-27 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-1 / Starlink 4-8 |
|
2021-05-04 |
Starlink v1-25 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺* |
YES / NO |
Starlink 4-1 |
|
2021-04-07 |
Starlink v1-24 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-6 |
|
2021-04-07 |
Starlink v1-23 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / NO |
Starlink 4-5 |
|
2021-03-24 |
Starlink v1-22 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
? |
|
2021-03-14 |
Starlink v1-21 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-28 / Transporter-2 |
|
2021-03-11 |
Starlink v1-20 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink 4-5 / Starlink 4-4 |
|
2021-03-04 |
Starlink v1-17 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-28 / ? |
|
2021-02-16 |
Starlink v1-19 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / NO |
? |
|
2021-02-04 |
Starlink v1-18 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES? |
Transporter-2 / ? |
|
2021-01-24 |
Transporter-1 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-21 |
|
2021-01-20 |
Starlink v1-16 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
NO / NO |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 707 km downrange.
- One fairing was previously used on a Starlink mission and the other one on two Starlink missions. SpaceX didn’t specify which missions the fairings previously flew on, but they might have been from Starlink v1-9 and Starlink v1-10.
- Interestingly, the fairings didn’t have the usual thermal protection on the tip.
- Ms. Chief and Ms. Tree were deployed but didn’t attempt to catch the fairings.
- The ships didn’t manage to recover either of the fairings.
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Falcon 9 fairing prior to the Starlink v1-16 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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Ms. Chief returning to port without any fairings after the Starlink v1-16 mission (Credit: NASA Spaceflight)
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2021-01-08 |
Türksat 5A |
Ms. Chief / ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
NO / YES |
Starlink 2-1 |
|
2020-12-19 |
NROL-108 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-26 / Starlink 2-1 |
|
2020-12-13 |
SXM-7 |
Ms. Tree? / ocean |
v2.5 ♺* |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-20 / Starlink v1-26 |
|
2020-11-25 |
Starlink v1-15 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-23 / Starlink v1-17? |
|
2020-11-21 |
Sentinel-6A |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-20 / Starlink v1-22 |
|
2020-11-05 |
GPSIII-SV04 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-27 |
|
2020-10-24 |
Starlink v1-14 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES? / YES? |
Starlink v1-22? |
|
2020-10-18 |
Starlink v1-13 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 ♺ |
NO / NO |
? |
|
2020-10-06 |
Starlink v1-12 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 ♺* |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-23 / ? |
|
2020-09-03 |
Starlink v1-11 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 |
NO / NO |
– |
|
2020-08-31 |
SAOCOM 1B |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-18 / ? |
|
2020-08-18 |
Starlink v1-10 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-16? / Starlink v1-25 |
|
2020-08-07 |
Starlink v1-9 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-16? / ? |
|
2020-07-20 |
ANASIS-II |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
SXM-7 / Türksat 5A |
|
2020-06-30 |
GPSIII-SV03 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Türksat 5A / Starlink v1-18 |
|
2020-06-13 |
Starlink v1-8 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-13 |
|
2020-06-04 |
Starlink v1-7 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / NO |
Starlink v1-15 |
|
2020-04-22 |
Starlink v1-6 |
ocean |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / YES? |
Starlink v1-15 / ? |
|
2020-03-18 |
Starlink v1-5 |
Ms. Tree / Ms. Chief |
v2.5 ♺ |
YES / NO |
Starlink v1-12 |
|
2020-02-17 |
Starlink v1-4 |
Ms. Tree / Ms. Chief |
v2.5 |
NO / NO |
– |
|
2020-01-29 |
Starlink v1-3 |
Ms. Tree / Ms. Chief |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-10 |
|
2020-01-07 |
Starlink v1-2 |
Ms. Tree / ocean |
v2.5 |
NO / YES |
Starlink v1-8 |
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2019-12-17 |
JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 |
Ms. Chief / Ms. Tree |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-8 / ? |
|
2019-11-11 |
Starlink v1-1 |
– |
v2.5 ♺ |
no attempt |
– |
- The first ever launch with reused fairings. They previously flew on Arabsat 6A in April 2019.
- This was supposed to be the first attempt at catching both fairing halves at once by Ms. Chief and Ms. Tree.
- The recovery attempt was aborted a few hours before the launch due to concerns about the ships’ structural integrity.
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Reused Falcon 9 fairing before the Starlink v1-1 launch (Credit: SpaceX)
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2019-08-06 |
Amos-17 |
Ms. Tree / ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-6 |
|
2019-06-25 |
STP-2 |
Ms. Tree / ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / NO |
– |
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2019-05-24 |
Starlink v0.9 |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-5 |
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2019-04-12 |
Arabsat 6A |
ocean |
v2.5 |
YES / YES |
Starlink v1-1 |
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2019-02-22 |
Nusantara Satu |
– |
v2.5 |
no attempt |
– |
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2018-12-23 |
GPSIII-SV01 |
– |
v2.5 |
no attempt |
– |
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2018-12-03 |
SSO-A |
Mr. Steven / ocean |
v2.0 |
YES / YES |
– |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 344 km downrange.
- Both fairing halves were recovered from the ocean by Mr. Steven.
- The plan was to reuse these fairings but it never happened.
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Falcon 9 fairing before the SSO-A launch (Credit: Jack Beyer)
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Recovered fairings from the SSO-A mission aboard Mr. Steven (Credit: Pauline Acalin)
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2018-07-25 |
Iridium-7 |
Mr. Steven / ocean |
v2.0 |
NO / YES |
– |
- Landing took place in the Pacific approximately 593 km downrange.
- First attempt at catching a fairing using Mr. Steven’s larger net.
- Mr. Steven’s crew used IR cameras to track the fairing in the dark, but didn’t manage to catch it.
- One fairing half was recovered from the water intact but the other one broke apart.
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Falcon 9 fairing before the Iridium-7 launch (Credit: Teslarati)
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The SpaceX fairing recovery vehicle Mr Steven made it’s way back from off the coast of Mexico and it’s attempt at recovering the fairing from the SpaceX Iridium 7 launch that took place early July 25, 2018. Mr Steven didn’t catch the fairing as hoped but recovered it from the water landing. (Photo by Charles Bennett)
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2018-07-22 |
Telstar 19V |
ocean |
v1.0 |
NO |
– |
|
2018-06-04 |
SES-12 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
YES |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 927 km downrange.
- GO Pursuit brought back to port a seemingly intact fairing half (video).
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Falcon 9 fairing before the SES-12 launch (Credit: Tom Cross)
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2018-05-22 |
Iridium-6/GRACE-FO |
Mr. Steven / ocean |
v2.0 |
YES / YES |
– |
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2018-05-11 |
Bangabandhu-1 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
UNCLEAR |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 927 km downrange.
- GO Pursuit brought back to port a fairing half in unknown condition.
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Falcon 9 fairing before the Bangabandhu-1 launch (Credit: Stephen Clark)
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Recovered fairing from the Bangabandhu-1 mission (Credit: Julia Bergeron)
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2018-04-19 |
TESS |
ocean |
v2.0 |
NO / NO |
– |
|
2018-03-30 |
Iridium-5 |
Mr. Steven |
v1.0 |
YES |
– |
|
2018-02-22 |
Paz |
Mr. Steven / ocean |
v2.0 |
NO / YES |
– |
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2018-01-31 |
SES-16 / GovSat-1 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
NO |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 799 km downrange.
- GO Searcher didn’t manage to recover the fairing.
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2017-10-30 |
KoreaSat 5A |
ocean |
v1.0 |
UNCLEAR |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 794 km downrange.
- Mr. Steven brought back to part a fairing in unknown condition.
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Falcon 9 fairing before the KoreaSat 5A launch (Credit: Robin Seemangal)
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Recovered fairing from the KoreaSat 5A mission (Credit: @BoringSled)
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2017-10-12 |
SES-11 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
NO |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 765 km downrange.
- GO Searcher brought back to port a damaged fairing half.
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Falcon 9 fairing before the SES-11 mission (Credit: SpaceX)
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GO Searcher with a damaged fairing after the SES-11 mission (Credit: America Space)
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2017-06-23 |
Bulgariasat-1 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
NO |
– |
- Landing took place in the Atlantic approximately 790 km downrange.
- According to Elon Musk, they had some problems with the steerable parachute.
- GO Searcher was the fairing recovery ship for this mission.
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2017-05-01 |
NROL-76 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
YES |
– |
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2017-03-31 |
SES-10 |
ocean |
v1.0 |
NO |
– |
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