Moment a helicopter catches a rocket booster in spaceflight cost-cutting tests
Telegraph, 03 May 2022
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This is the moment a helicopter caught a falling 12m tall rocket booster.
Rocket Lab USA Inc company is trying to reduce the cost of spaceflight by reusing its rockets. This is a trend pioneered by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX.
But unlike SpaceX's reusable, two-stage rocket Falcon 9, which reignites its engines to return to Earth, Rocket Lab aims for a helicopter with two pilots to pluck a 39-foot-tall (11.9-meters-tall) booster stage from mid-air using a combination of ropes, parachutes and a heatshield.
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This is the moment a helicopter caught a falling 12m tall rocket booster.
Rocket Lab USA Inc company is trying to reduce the cost of spaceflight by reusing its rockets. This is a trend pioneered by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX.
But unlike SpaceX's reusable, two-stage rocket Falcon 9, which reignites its engines to return to Earth, Rocket Lab aims for a helicopter with two pilots to pluck a 39-foot-tall (11.9-meters-tall) booster stage from mid-air using a combination of ropes, parachutes and a heatshield.
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