Sign Up for the A.M. Report Keep up with Noozhawk's daily news coverage, delivered at 4:15 a.m. right to your inbox. Sign up This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Conditions Monday also allowed viewers to see the first-stage booster, or lower two-thirds of the rocket, and the two halves of the payload fairing, or nose cone, falling back to Earth. What one spectator believed to be the rocket “pooping out satellites” actually were the three components returning to landing sites in the ocean since SpaceX plans to reuse them for future missions. The first-stage booster for the flight completed its 23rd launch and landing with the return to the Of Course I Still Love You droneship. Recycling the first-stage booster and payload fairing halves allows SpaceX to reduce the cost of its rockets and time between missions. It was the sixth launch of 2025 from Vandenberg, with all of them involving Falcon rockets. Later this month, a pair of NASA payloads plan to travel into orbit aboard a Falcon rocket set to launch from the West Coast. Other launch vehicles built by different companies also are expected to blast off this year from Vandenberg to conduct various missions. Tagged: