{"id":146392,"date":"2022-09-14T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rocket-lab-fired-up-a-used-engine-for-the-first-time-after-retrieving-it-from-space"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:29:14","slug":"rocket-lab-fired-up-a-used-engine-for-the-first-time-after-retrieving-it-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/rocket-lab-fired-up-a-used-engine-for-the-first-time-after-retrieving-it-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab fired up a used engine for the first time after retrieving it from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zi53tCpsBW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s developing a rocket reuse method that uses helicopters to pluck boosters out of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab, the company that\u2019s building the technology to pluck first-stage rocket boosters out of the sky for reuse, reached a new reusability milestone, a press statement from the company earlier this month confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the company fired up a Rutherford engine from one of its Electron boosters that had been recovered after flying to space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s developing a rocket reuse method that uses helicopters to pluck boosters out of the sky. Rocket Lab, the company that\u2019s building the technology to pluck first-stage rocket boosters out of the sky for reuse, reached a new reusability milestone, a press statement from the company earlier this month confirmed. For the first time, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}