The company will try to catch a real rocket for the first time on Thursday (April 28), if the weather cooperates.
This screenshot from a Rocket Lab video shows the company catching a dummy booster using a helicopter during a recent test.
"There And Back Again" is the name of Rocket Lab's next mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday from the company's New Zealand launch site. The planned liftoff of the company's two-stagehas been pushed back several times due to unfavorable weather, as the tweet mentions.
The mission's chief objective is to loft 34 satellites for a variety of customers. But most space fans will be focused on the secondary aim — the successful snag of the Electron's returning first stage shortly after liftoff, which is part of Rocket Lab's effort to make the first stage of the 59-foot-tall Electron reusable.
It will be a big moment for the company; Rocket Lab has successfully guided returning Electron boosters back to Earth for soft ocean splashdowns on several previous flights but has never tried to catch one before. (Rocket Lab has conducted a number of helicopter snags with dummy boosters, and they've
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