Watch Rocket Lab attempt to catch a falling booster with a helicopter today
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/29/watch-rocket-lab-attempt-to-catch-a-falling-booster-with-a-helicopter-today/
Rocket Lab will take a shot a making history today with its attempt to catch a spent booster mid-air with a helicopter. This (mostly) unprecedented technique is apparently the safest and most efficient the company could come up with, and this will be the first full scale operation, aiming to catch the first stage of the “There and Back Again” mission before it splashes down. You can watch it live below this afternoon.
Don’t worry, it’s not just a helicopter-mounted catcher’s mitt for the first stage to crash into at terminal velocity; they have a little more sense than that.