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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Farewell, Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief
Today marks the retirement of both “Ms. Tree & Ms. Chief”, the wacky fairing catching ships. @spacex will no longer try & catch the fairings, just fish them out with a new boat “Shelia Bordelon” To say goodbye, our “fairing recovery” stickers are half off! https://t.co/sGEPzV8z8x pic.twitter.com/5azMyvewKg
— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) April 7, 2021
Apparently SpaceX have given up on trying to catch payload fairings before splashdown and will routinely recover from the sea in the future. Having now re-flown a number of fairing halves after they splashed down, that seems a viable strategy for the future.
Posted at April 7, 2021 20:18