Ahlan, and welcome to Payload Fairing. I am Salem Al Mazrouei, and this is the show that takes the machinery of spaceflight apart piece by piece so you understand what you are watching when you stay up late for a launch. We are starting, fittingly, with the thing the show is named after. About three minutes after liftoff, two big shells fall away from the top of the rocket and nobody on the stream explains why. What was the fairing protecting the satellite from? Why is it suddenly dead weight? And why are companies now sending boats with giant nets to catch it on the way down? My guest is Dr Hessa Al Shamsi, who tests fairing separation on the ground, and she has stories. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let's count down.