Small rocket builder Rocket Lab USA Inc is gearing up for a mission that seems more appropriate for a big-budget action movie: catching a falling four-story-tall rocket booster with a helicopter.

Rocket Lab, a start-up building small orbital rockets, kicked off another successful mission on Friday — but it failed in its efforts to recapture its rocket booster as it tumbled down toward ...

Rocket Lab this week made an ostentatious attempt to catch a rocket as it fell from space using a hook-wielding helicopter that snagged the rocket mid-air only for the pilots to intentionally drop ...

Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab is following in the footsteps of rocket behemoth SpaceX with plans to make its rockets reusable. But Rocket Lab won’t be landing its vehicles in the same ...

Small satellite launch company Rocket Lab will attempt to catch one of its Electron rockets in mid-air after launch, using a helicopter to snag the vehicle while underneath a parachute.

SpaceX was the first to bring a booster back from space and use it again. Other companies are now following in its footsteps—kind of.

To more Small launch firm Rocket Lab USA Inc on Monday captured a falling rocket stage out of the air with a helicopter before dropping it in the ocean, appearing to achieve a partially successful ...

Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, doesn't drink coffee, keeps bits of old rockets on his desk, and tries to make it ...

The small-satellite launch service wants to pluck the first stage of its Electron rocket out of the sky using a helicopter that then brings it safely back to terra firma.

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — The two helicopters flew low and loud in eastern Ukraine, thwop-thwopping over tilled black soil. They skimmed small lakes glinting in the early-morning light. They ...

The latest armored vehicle curiosity is a Russian BTR fighting vehicle packing 32-round rocket pods that normally hang under the wings of an attack helicopter.

Despite its small size, it can be armed with light machine guns, rocket pods, and air-to-ground or air-to-air missiles. It does see some use among civilians as well, without the armament of course. 8.