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The body tube, nose cone and fins come in attractive black and orange colors and the set includes stickers to add to the decorations.
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Alexander Cox, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
But lidar systems are still too bulky and expensive to fit into a plane’s nose cone.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
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Alexander Cox, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
But lidar systems are still too bulky and expensive to fit into a plane’s nose cone.
—Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Nose cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nose%20cone. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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