https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/29/spacex-successfully-catches-one-fairing-half-from-latest-starlink-launch/

SpaceX is one step closer to an even more re-usable launch system today, after it successfully recovered one fo the halves of the fairing used on its Starlink satellite launch today. The fairing half was caught by its ‘Ms. Tree’ vessel, a ship at sea in the Atlantic strung with a large net specifically for the purpose of recovering these launch craft components.

SpaceX had been aiming to catch both halves of the fairing, but the other (intended to land on ‘Ms. Chief,’ another ship SpaceX operates specifically for this purpose) instead landed in the open water. SpaceX says it had a “soft landing” on the water, however, and it will be attempting to recover that half, too – though its purpose in using the ships is to avoid the much more difficult, costly and damaging process of fishing the fairing out of the ocean.