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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: Startup is Going to Use Helicopters to Catch Rockets
Description: Rocket Lab says reusing its rockets will help it launch small satellites more frequently. The process of traveling to space is riddled with complicated and expensive engineering challenges, but efforts to make it more economical have thus far emphasized using rockets over and over again.  For most of the spaceflight era, the expensive rockets used to propel men and equipment into orbit were discarded to plummet back to Earth.   SpaceX famously pioneered the process of reusing them by redeploying its boosters to gently guide the first stage of its launch vehicle back to a pla...