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Re:Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via He... by londons_explore on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:02PM (#20630533)
Catching things in the air is hard...

But it's been done[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...

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Re:Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via He... by andrewwharton on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:23PM (#20630959)
Like he says in the video, catching is actually the easy bit.

Having the booster survive the re-entry heating and aerodynamic loads while only using passive methods to slow it is the hard bit.

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Re:Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via He... by apendleton on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:27PM (#20630682)
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)#Recovery
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Re:Rocket Lab - Reusability Plans for Electron Rocket via He... by twic on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:22PM (#20630656)
More like these, given that the rocket will be falling rather than tethered:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval

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