A helicopter uses a specially designed hook to snag the parachute attached to a replica of an Electron first stage, demonstrating a key step in Rocket Lab's plans to recover and reuse the stage.

Rocket Lab will attempt to recover the first stage of its Electron rocket on the next launch as part of its efforts to make the stage reusable. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab will try to ...

A Rocket Lab booster propelled 30 small satellites into orbit from New Zealand Thursday while its first stage parachuted to a Pacific Ocean splashdown, a key step toward perfecting systems that will ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab has today revealed that it will attempt to recover the first stage of its Electron rocket during its next mission, the ‘Return to Sender’ launch, ...

Rocket Lab said Thursday it will attempt to recover the first stage of its Electron rocket for the first time with its next mission, scheduled for liftoff in mid-November. This step follows a series ...