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		refulgentis on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A helicopter will try to catch a rocket booster mi... To their point, I'm not sure how well a carefully controlled slow descent and catch interplays with an object that can never be in place, in fact, it needs to be at 200 kph. Sounds much less safe.

mulmen on April 18, 2022 [–]

It works great. This story isn’t notable for the recovery method. It is notable because of what is being recovered (a reusable rocket booster).

refulgentis on April 19, 2022 | [–]

No, it doesn't. Lol.

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