I missed this at the time, but something told me to check: Rocket Lab's booster-parachute works.
It's on the babystep principle. Eventually they want to send out helicopters (or drones) to catch the booster on descent. That part was tested already - for dummies. Here they were testing the 'chute. This booster ended up in the Pacific - but with much less damage than usual, because parachute.
The main part of the mission was to put some more space junk satellites into orbit. That worked too.
Sincere congratulations to the Rocket Lab.
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