That's a little bit of a bummer, but it's still incredible they managed to catch it. Hopefully they'll be able to refine their approach and get a solid catch next time!
And hopefully one of the refinements is they use a wider angle camera on the next one. It was pretty frustrating knowing the pilot is vectoring at a target they can see while i’m just staring at a wall of clouds until the last few seconds.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 25.0 ms ] thread> Rocket Lab says the recovery helicopter “offloaded” the Electron first stage for splashdown after catching the booster over the Pacific Ocean.
> The pilot noticed different load characteristics than experienced during previous testing, Rocket Lab said.
https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/152127608482158182...
Edit: And direct link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/6nODVPGHQcc