Elon Musk tweeted "Flying with larger & significantly upgraded hypersonic grid fins. Single piece cast & cut titanium. Can take reentry heat with no shielding."
These have been commonly known as a large visible element of the Mod 4 Falcon 9 design. (Falcon 9 1.0 has been retconned to Mod 1, V1....
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Mr Steven is back in port with a fairing and a half!
We have a SpaceX launch (landing on OCISLY, odd how boring a launch is now, without a landing) on Feb 25. Then next Vandy launch with Mr Steven trying to catch a fairing is Iridium 5 end of March (29th).
