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The company can reportedly manufacture at least four of these behemoths a day, and SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket can hold more than 25 of them at once, all folded up inside its nose cone.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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.
—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
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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.
—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
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“Nose cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nose%20cone. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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