Last night Rocket Lab laid out details of its booster-retrieval plan. That's the one where they don't redirect the stage back to the pad; that rocket ejects ALL the fuel, throws up a 'chute, and some helicopter picks it up again.
You'd think Starship stands to make it moot; although, I had some notions on holding the 'Lab on standby in case a Falcon misfires.
Absent from the latest article: the word "Neutron". This one is the Electron. The names must have something to do with size. The Neutron was also supposed to be first-stage reusable, with this stage landing close to where it fired off from; the "static tests" start this year, meaning such tests as don't get up off the ground. Anyway that's flying 2024.
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