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When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth’s orbit.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Meanwhile, part of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket’s nose cone, bearing the signatures of the company’s employees, washed up on a Bahamian island near a tourist destination.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
The most notable of these was the Jupiter-C, used to test blunt-body warhead nose cones in 1956 and 1957.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2016
The Crew Dragon had already jettisoned its trunk, the bottom part of the craft that holds its solar panels, as was no longer needed, and closed the nose cone ahead of re-entry.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Meanwhile, part of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket’s nose cone, bearing the signatures of the company’s employees, washed up on a Bahamian island near a tourist destination.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025
The most notable of these was the Jupiter-C, used to test blunt-body warhead nose cones in 1956 and 1957.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2016
The Crew Dragon had already jettisoned its trunk, the bottom part of the craft that holds its solar panels, as was no longer needed, and closed the nose cone ahead of re-entry.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Nose cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nose%20cone. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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