How to Use fairing in a Sentence

fairing

noun

• Bolstering its café racer profile are clip-on bars, bar-end mirrors, and a short fairing.
  — New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2026
• Everything, from the fairing to even the smallest components, is made from carbon.
  — New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
• This was also the final launch of an Atlas V rocket with a payload fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
• The Memphis Shades cafe-style fairing gives it its distinctive appearance.
  — New Atlas, 28 Dec. 2025
• The concept draws inspiration from traditional trucking, where bolt-on fairings and side skirts have long been used to cut fuel burn.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
• After the launch, the two landers, a payload fairing, and the upper stage were all tracked following their separation.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
• As part of the contract, Beyond Gravity will produce 20 long and seven short fairings.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
• Also, space exploration companies can use the same rapid-tooling method to fabricate durable molds for rocket fairings and capsule structures.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
• The ubiquitous carbon fiber looks amazing, of course, from the wide front intake to the active-aero winglets, fairings, the seat subframe, and even the license plate holder hanging off the tail.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
• Space launches also reduce the risk of accidental damage from falling parts (like rocket boosters, fairings, etc) during launches.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
• On Falcon 9 launches, the company recovers the booster and payload fairings but tosses the upper stage, which puts a floor under how cheap each launch can get.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
• On the Falcon 9, stacks of Starlink satellites still ride to space on top of the rocket, inside a fairing, and then release all at once upon reaching orbit.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
• These include propellant tanks, engine nozzles, nose cones, thermal payload fairings and advanced deployable solar arrays.
  — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
• The agreement covers the supply of 27 payload fairings for flights 16 to 42 of Ariane 6.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
• Smirin said the diversity of future space missions will require some satellites to take more conventional shapes, some of which will need to launch on a rocket with a more conventional payload fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
• The vertical launch horizontal landing spaceplane will be mated to a launch vehicle and will not be encapsulated in the launch vehicle fairings.
  — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
• Fully fueled, Roman tipped the scales at some 20,000 pounds (9 metric tons) and filled the Falcon Heavy’s payload fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
• The Sport Pack includes a quickshifter, engine guard, radiator grille protection, and a bikini fairing, along with other cosmetic upgrades.
  — New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
• The proposal also covers recovery of the rocket’s payload fairing, which Blue Origin has not attempted on any of the three launches of New Glenn to date.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
• One example is an innovative reusable captive ‘Hungry Hippo’ fairing that stays attached to Neutron’s first stage.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
• The prototype that Sarcos demonstrated had all of the functionality of the version that will ship in January, but latter models will include plastic fairings over the suit as well as quick-change end-effectors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2019
• Conventional launch vehicles secure their payloads inside protective fairings that fall away from the rocket completely once damaging aerodynamic forces disappear in the vacuum of space.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2026
• The company recently completed final qualification tests on the fairing that will crown its newest launch vehicle, the partially reusable Neutron, which is expected to fly for the first time early next year.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• This time, Isar has placed five small CubeSats and a non-separating technology experiment into the Spectrum rocket’s payload fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026
• Impulse Space will contract with the Space Force to provide end-to-end service, procuring a launch vehicle and then stacking the Helios stage and designated satellite into the payload fairing of the rocket.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
• Once the fairing is incorporated with Neutron's first stage, Rocket Lab will perform a series of prelaunch tests, including a static hotfire of the nine Archimedes engines that power the reusable booster.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• The upper stage carrying the payload fairing will continue in space, helping to send the ESCAPADE satellites to Mars.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
• Engineers also conducted tuft testing on wheel fairings and panel gaps to validate real-world airflow against computer simulations, refining aerodynamic efficiency and vehicle fit.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
• Because the Ariane 6 rocket is expendable, Europe must increase production of all of the vehicle’s elements, from its solid-rocket motors to first-stage engines, in addition to upper stages and payload fairings.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026
• The Space Force has only acknowledged one of the satellites aboard the USSF-106 mission, but there are more payloads cocooned inside the Vulcan rocket's fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2025