Comments on: Rocket Lab successfully catches first stage with helicopter https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/ Tue, 03 May 2022 15:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321528 Tue, 03 May 2022 15:47:26 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321528 Nice coverage–and I highly enjoy the Rocket Lab announcer-girl, in contrast to the highly annoying lady at SpaceX. (IMHO)
Excellent job catching the 1st stage, (I’m no Engineer, but it feels like that’s 95% of the Adventure unto itself.)
I haven’t watched this repetitively (yet)–from what vantage point is the camera for the parachute deploy?

“MLB: Almost Amazing Plays….”
https://youtu.be/3uQqYknJT4g
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]]> By: Peter Monta https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321446 Tue, 03 May 2022 14:06:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321446 Peter Beck has tweeted, though, that the engines “are going back to space, I reckon”. So perhaps the engines will be viable for reuse. No mention of the airframe.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321280 Tue, 03 May 2022 09:11:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321280 There was talk of transporting Saturn V first stages by chopper…maybe capture. To this day, Russia still has the greatest lift record with that mammoth. We never beat that Sputnik moment. For shame!

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321263 Tue, 03 May 2022 08:11:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321263 That pilot will never buy another drink in their life: ‘Let me tell you ’bout the time I caught a rocket out of thee air with a helicopter’. A fantastic display of airmanship, as rotary-wing is less forgiving than fixed-wing if something goes sideways.

And if everything worked right the first time, we’d be living in a Progressive fantasy: and thankfully, the Universe will not allow that.

Big style points. Landing a rocket on land or barge is so 2021. I do wonder about taking that kind of risk when there is proven recovery tech that is safer.

]]> By: t-dub https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321183 Tue, 03 May 2022 05:20:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321183 @GaryMike . . . yes, but do you want to be one of the salmon that doesn’t make it up the waterfalls to spawn?

]]> By: GaryMike https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321167 Tue, 03 May 2022 04:50:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321167 Evolutionary iteration(s).

You learn more from your mistakes & failures.

Or, you should.

The goal is robustness, not momentary glory.

Except for Boeing’s Starliner, we should accept failure in the same way that Nature accepts that not all Salmon make it up and over the waterfalls, on their way to the spawning grounds..

]]> By: William https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321072 Tue, 03 May 2022 00:36:37 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321072 Almost

]]> By: Willi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-successfully-catches-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321045 Mon, 02 May 2022 23:53:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84417#comment-1321045 Caught it and dropped it. They had to fish it out of the water.

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