The fairing did not hit the net and landed on the water a few hundred meters from the barge called "Mr. Stephen", NV reports with reference to TechCrunch.

On "Mr. Stephen" was installed a large stretched network, which was supposed to land half of the fairing. During the descent at a height of several kilometers, half of the fairing is opened with a steered chute, which, due to GPS signals, guides the fairing to a ship in the ocean.

"They missed a few hundred meters, but the fairing landed in the water intact. We can catch with a few large parachutes to slow down the descent, "- wrote Mask on Twitter.

Missed by a few hundred meters, but fairing landed intact in water. Should be able to catch it with a little bigger chutes to slow down descent.

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2018 SpaceX modernizes payload fairings within the project to restore and reuse components. The general director of SpaceX Ilon Mask said that such fairings cost about $ 5 million, so the possibility of their reuse can give significant savings. The cost of fairings is about one tenth of the total cost of launching SpaceX launchers in a one-time configuration.

In the spring of 2017, the company first planted half the head fairing after launch. To do this, they used their own engines and a parachute, due to which the fairing could brake and sit on the water.

Recall that on the afternoon of February 22, SpaceX company launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with satellites for distribution of the Internet Microsat 2a and Microsat 2b from the launch pad in California. The start took place at 16:17 in Kyiv from the launching complex 4E, at the Vandenberg Air Force Base.