Rocket Lab
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Probably never heard of it, have you?
This is an Aussie satellite company with a focus on small commercial satellite deployment. They've had a few successful missions so far, but yesterday, the mission was a bit different.
After separation of the first stage, the stage fell back to Earth. At the appropriate altitude, it deployed a parachute, and an awaiting helicopter snagged it, and delivered it to an awaiting ship for re-use.
https://gizmodo.com/watch-live-rocket-lab-helicopter-rocket-catch-1848860575
A totally different approach from SpaceX, but it's nice to see reusability becoming more common. I think SpaceX has reused one of their boosters 6-8 times.
This is from a test flight from RocketLab.
If you have an hour and a half...
Link to videoYou can't see the catch, by the way.
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