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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Built for stealth surveillance missions The XRQ-73 still has its large lower fuselage fairing, which is probably meant to carry intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • Future New Glenn flights will also feature a reusable payload fairing that can be recovered after being jettisoned in the upper atmosphere, a cost-saving step that SpaceX adopted years ago for Falcon 9 launches.
    — PC Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Compared to traditional rocket fairings, which are jettisoned during ascent and either discarded or recovered separately, the new fairing remains attached to the launch vehicle throughout the entire mission – the launch, payload deployment and return to Earth.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The huge amounts of space junk in orbit, ranging from nuts and bolts to rocket fairings and dead satellites, pose a serious hazard to satellites and the International Space Station, which has to regularly take evasive action to dodge space shrapnel, much of which is moving faster than a bullet.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The material was also used in the fenders, fairings and winglets on the Suzuki GSX-R1000R for the the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race over the last couple of years.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2026
  • After the booster separates from the rest of the vehicle, the upper stage carrying the payload fairing will continue in space, helping to send the ESCAPADE satellites to Mars.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Boeing’s uncrewed spacecraft fits in normal rocket fairings, or nosecones, and has flown five times on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, once on SpaceX Falcon 9 and once on Falcon Heavy.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • SpaceX, too, has implemented its own recovery and refurbishment plans for Falcon 9 fairings, but the two halves of the shell protecting the rocket's payload on its way to orbit are still designed to split apart and fall back to Earth independently of each other, and of Falcon 9's first stage.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Six more Atlas Vs in ULA’s inventory are assigned to launch Boeing’s Starliner crew capsules to the International Space Station, and those missions will fly without a fairing.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
  • The upper stage vehicle carrying the payload fairing will continue in space, helping to send NASA's twin ESCAPADE satellites to Mars.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Shillitoe's Kejashi system, which sounds Japanese but is just a nod do his own name KEnt JAmes SHIllitoe, disconnects the forks and handlebars from the normal steering head, and mounts them on a trailing arm coming back from a point well out in front of the fairing.
    — Loz Blain august 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The 46-foot (14-meter) fairing made its way via barge and truck to Rocket Lab's facilities at MARS, after departing from the company's California test facility in December.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026

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