Falcon 9R landing legs, payload fairing, etc

[tavert]

Some cool pictures found on Elon Musk's twitter, for anyone who hasn't seen these:

Landing leg, and what looks to be an aerodynamic fairing for when it's retracted http://t.co/H49TSS2CYl

Payload fairing in an enormous vacuum chamber, closed http://t.co/BLOTThWFvw and open http://t.co/2zkLi4ON0s

Does the shape of the leg fairing remind anyone of an elongated Star Trek logo?

[magnemoe]

When you say it yes, I wonder that the cargo was, looked like a lots of struts on top of an probe.

[tavert]

Probably just an instrumentation rig for the separation tests they're doing (or did). Guessing those might be feelers at the top to measure how centered the fairing is when closed.

[Rune]

That's a nice leg. Carbon fiber? I may have to make a twitter account to follow the guy, haven't seen those on fb.

Rune. News are always too slow to come out for my taste ^^'