Liftoff is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. ET.
boosters do; it doesn't have enough fuel left over after launch for such maneuvers. So Rocket Lab decided to go with the helicopter, which grabs ahold of Electron's parachute line with a hook as the booster descends.
Rocket Lab has made some progress toward its reusability goal. For example, it has already performed one helicopter recovery, on a mission in May of this year calledDuring that May mission, the helicopter — a Sikorsky S-92 — successfully snagged the Electron's but accidentally dropped it into the drink shortly thereafter.
Rocket Lab fished the rocket out of the sea and hauled it back to shore by boat. The company analyzed the flown booster, then refurbished and tested one of its nine Rutherford engines, with promising results. "The refurbished engine passed all of the same rigorous acceptance tests we perform for every launch engine, including 200 seconds of engine fire and multiple restarts," company representatives wrote in the press kit for"Catch Me If You Can," which you can find. The tests showed that the engine produced full thrust and"performed to the same standard of a newly built Rutherford engine," they added.
Still, Rocket Lab would prefer to keep its boosters out of the water. On"Catch Me If You Can," the company aims to keep the captured booster secured beneath the chopper for the entire flight to its Auckland Production Complex.
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