Rocket Lab has just joined SpaceX in the club of space companies that can launch an orbital-class rocket booster and bring it back alive. In a sense, the California-based company one-upped SpaceX by having a helicopter snag the first-stage booster of its Electron rocket with a cable and a hook as it floated past on…
They Did It! Rocket Lab Uses Copter to Catch (and Release) a Rocket — Universe Today
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