Rocket Lab Launches Satellite, Fails to Catch Booster in Midair
By now, SpaceX makes it look easy to land its first stage boosters on a drone barge. As a competing satellite launch company called Rocket Labs learned earlier today, though, catching a descending booster in midair is a little harder. Rocket Labs launched a Swedish satellite called Mesospheric Airglow/Aerosol Tomography and Spectroscopy (MATS) at 1:27 … [Read more…]