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Rocket Lab recovers booster in major step toward reusability – CBS News
Splashdown shows booster can safely re-enter atmosphere as company works toward mid-air recovery
A Rocket Lab booster propelled 30 small satellites into orbit from New Zealand Thursday while its first stage parachuted to a Pacific Ocean splashdown, a key step toward perfecting systems that will enable spent stages to be plucked from mid-air by waiting helicopters.
Appropriately enough, the company’s 16th mission was nicknamed “Return to Sender.”
The 60-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Rocket Lab’s picturesque launch complex on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula at 9:20 p.m. EST (3:20 p.m. Friday…
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