The company's developing a rocket reuse method that uses helicopters to pluck boosters out of the sky.
Rocket Lab, the company that's building the technology to pluck first-stage rocket boosters out of the sky for reuse, reached a new reusability milestone,For the first time, the company fired up a Rutherford engine from one of its Electron boosters that had been recovered after flying to space.Rocket Lab said the engine "performed to the same standard of a newly built Rutherford engine" during the 200-second test fire.
The private space firm aims to reuse its first-stage boosters in a similar fashion to SpaceX with its Falcon 9 rockets. Unlike SpaceX's dramatic booster landings, however, Rocket Lab aims to capture its boosters by deploying a parachute on the booster as it descends to Earth and catching it out of the sky using a helicopter with a winch.
The company has successfully tested the technology during a mission in May, but it's yet to deploy it on a regular operational basis. During the May mission, the helicopter dropped the booster into the sea shortly after it was captured, but it was retrieved with a boat shortly afterward. The Rutherford engine from that mission is the one Rocket Lab has fired up in its recent engine test.
So when's our next recovery mission, you ask? It's on track to take place before the end of the year. And yes, we will be bringing back the helicopter.
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