{"id":54463,"date":"2022-11-02T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-to-attempt-helicopter-recovery-of-electron-mid-stage-this-week\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:29:27","slug":"rocket-lab-to-attempt-helicopter-recovery-of-electron-mid-stage-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-to-attempt-helicopter-recovery-of-electron-mid-stage-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab to Attempt Helicopter Recovery of Electron Mid-Stage This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Commercial launch services company <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> will attempt to catch the mid-stage engine of the next rocket it launches into space with a helicopter as it returns to Earth. The company said on Wednesday that it will attempt the complex maneuver during its 32nd Electron rocket mission, \u201cCatch Me If You Can,\u201d which is scheduled for a launch window opening on November 4.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab will use the parachute line of a modified Sikorsky S-92 helicopter to catch and secure the mid-stage of its Electron rocket. As the Electron rocket enters the \u201ccapture zone,\u201d the recovery helicopter will match the rocket\u2019s speed and descent from above and attempt to secure the trailing parachute engagement line to the helicopter via a hook at the end of a long line. The helicopter will then bring the captured stage back to its production complex in Auckland, New Zealand to be processed and assessed by engineers and technicians for possible re-use.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming recovery effort follows Rocket Lab\u2019s helicopter catch of an Electron\u2019s first stage engine in May, during a mission titled \u201cThere And Back Again\u201d \u2014 a fitting reference to J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s novel \u201cThe Hobbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Electron used for the \u201cCatch Me If You Can\u201d mission will carry a science research satellite built by space systems provider OHB Sweden for the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). The Mesospheric Airglow\/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (MATS) satellite was originally due to fly on a Russian launch service before the mission was moved to Rocket Lab following the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial launch services company Rocket Lab will attempt to catch the mid-stage engine of the next rocket it launches into space with a helicopter as it returns to Earth. The company said on Wednesday that it will attempt the complex maneuver during its 32nd Electron rocket mission, \u201cCatch Me If You Can,\u201d which is scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}