Rocket Lab is gearing up to catch a falling four-storey-tall rocket booster using a helicopter off New Zealand's coast.
Small rocket builder Rocket Lab is gearing up for a mission that seems like something out of a big-budget action movie: catching a falling four-storey-tall rocket booster using a helicopter.
"I'm pretty confident that if the helicopter pilots can see it, they'll catch it," Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck said. Hinging on good weather, the capture test is due to take place off the coast of Mahia, New Zealand, the location of Rocket Lab's primary launch site, on Saturday morning.Rocket Lab has launched roughly two dozen rockets into orbit for government and commercial customers, three of which ended in mission failures.
Rocket Lab's helicopter capture test is set to take place after the company's Electron rocket launches 34 small satellites in a mission that Rocket Lab has named There and Back Again.
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