New Zealand-born launch provider Rocket Lab took a step toward making its launch vehicles reusable today with the safe splashdown and recovery of an Electron booster after it successfully took its ...

A Rocket Lab booster cam captured video from separation to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The footage has been time-lapsed.

Rocket Lab pulled off one of the wildest recovery attempts in modern spaceflight — catching a falling rocket booster with a helicopter. It wasn’t perfect, but it proved something huge: reusable ...