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Maybe this time, their helicopter can catch the falling rocket booster.

SpaceX has pioneered reuseable rocket boosters by guiding them back waiting drone ships, but Rocket Lab’s approach is to try and slow them down with parachutes and then catch them on a hook dangled from a waiting helicopter.

An attempt in May almost worked but slipped away, and now they’ll try again in a few days.

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