{"id":170611,"date":"2023-08-26T01:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/rocket-lab-flies-rocket-with-pre-flown-engine-for-first-time"},"modified":"2023-08-26T01:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:23:57","slug":"rocket-lab-flies-rocket-with-pre-flown-engine-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/rocket-lab-flies-rocket-with-pre-flown-engine-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab flies rocket with pre-flown engine for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-lab-flies-rocket-with-pre-flown-engine-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Rocket Lab reused one of its Rutherford engines, marking an important step in the road to reusability.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket with a pre-flown Rutherford engine for the first time yesterday, August 23.<\/p>\n<p>The company has experimented with a mid-air helicopter retrieval method, though it has settled on plucking boosters out of the ocean after a parachute-assisted splashdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Rocket Lab reused one of its Rutherford engines, marking an important step in the road to reusability. Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket with a pre-flown Rutherford engine for the first time yesterday, August 23. The company has experimented with a mid-air helicopter retrieval method, though it has settled on plucking [\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-170611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170611","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=170611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}