It plans to reuse a recovered nose cone from a Falcon Heavy rocket launch in a new flight this year . Yesterday's recovered payload fairing will be reassigned to a launch for Starlink, Musk added. The plan is another stage in the company 's goal of developing sustainable space travel , with each nose cone estimated to cost $ 6 m . The device , which was used in SpaceX 's first operational triple - rocket flight last week , is expected to be placed on one of the company 's launch vehicles this year .
It plans to reuse a recovered nose cone from a Falcon Heavy rocket launch in a new flight this year . The plan is another stage in the company 's goal of developing sustainable space travel , with each nose cone estimated to cost $ 6 m . The device , which was used in SpaceX 's first operational triple - rocket flight last week , is expected to be placed on one of the company 's launch vehicles this year .