Rocket Lab Catches Falling Booster Rocket With Helicopter, Drops It in Ocean Minutes Later

Rocket Lab Catches Falling Booster Rocket With Helicopter, Drops It in Ocean Minutes Later

ByNews Polite

Small launch firm Rocket Lab on Monday captured a falling rocket stage out of the air with a helicopter before dropping it in the ocean, appearing to achieve a partially successful test of the company’s novel cost-savings approach to recovering used rockets for multiple mission to space. The demonstration, involving…