{"id":1371,"date":"2019-02-03T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T08:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T08:17:05","slug":"mr-steven-spacexs-rocket-cone-catching-ship-is-on-its-way-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/mr-steven-spacexs-rocket-cone-catching-ship-is-on-its-way-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Steven, SpaceX&#8217;s Rocket Cone-Catching Ship is on its Way to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/400px-Payload_fairing_with_RBSP_in_it_guided_to_the_top_of_the_Atlas_V_401.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/400px-Payload_fairing_with_RBSP_in_it_guided_to_the_top_of_the_Atlas_V_401.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/400px-Payload_fairing_with_RBSP_in_it_guided_to_the_top_of_the_Atlas_V_401-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s\none-of-a-kind ship, Mr. Steven, has begun its 5,000-mile trek to Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX unique marine vessel, dubbed Mr. Steven, is fitted with four long arms and a net designed to catch plummeting rocket nose cones. It made its debut in February, 2018 and called the Port of Los Angeles, California, home until last week. It currently has a new destination: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\">Port Canaveral<\/a>, where it will support Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Steven is 205 feet long by 34 feet wide. It joined the recovery fleet of the aerospace company two years ago. SpaceX is well known for its fleet of rockets and how it changed the rocket game by proving that a rocket&#8217;s first-stage booster, which, historically, used to be a one-time-use component, can be\u00a0flown multiple times. In addition, SpaceX is working diligently on a strategy to reuse even more of its rockets \u2014 specifically, the payload\u00a0fairing known as the nose cone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>33\nsuccessful Falcon&nbsp;booster landings have been conducted so far.&nbsp;<em>Mr. Steven<\/em>&nbsp;has tried to catch nose cones several\ntimes, but the stars haven&#8217;t aligned just yet \u2013 the most recent attempt last\nmonth was a few feet from landing in the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once at Port Canaveral,&nbsp;the rocket\ncone-catching ship&nbsp;will join&nbsp;\u201cOf Course I Still Love You\u201d, an\nuncrewed drone ship designed to host Falcon booster landings at sea. Mr. Steven\nwill also join several other support vessels contracted by SpaceX, such\nas&nbsp;\u201cGo Searcher\u201d&nbsp;which is equipped with a helipad and a crane\nnecessary to pluck the Crew Dragon capsules out of the ocean after astronauts\nreturn to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41614-spacex-mr-steven-catcher-boat-up-close.html\">SPACE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX&#8217;s one-of-a-kind ship, Mr. Steven, has begun its 5,000-mile trek to Florida. SpaceX unique marine vessel, dubbed Mr. Steven, is fitted with four long arms and a net designed to catch plummeting rocket nose cones. It made its debut in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/mr-steven-spacexs-rocket-cone-catching-ship-is-on-its-way-to-florida\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}