We didn't want to bite off more than we could chew, the pilots were well briefed : If anything was different from the simulation that they felt that they weren't happy with, then the most important thing is everybody's safety. ... And that's exactly what they executed. So they got a great catch. And and they just didn't like the way the the load was feeling.

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One advantage of New Zealand being this little island nation in the middle of nowhere is that's the perfect place to launch a rocket.

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We’re not about building a rocket; we’re about enabling the small... by Rocket Lab

We’re not about building a rocket; we’re about enabling the small satellite revolution.

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Certainly lots of hard problems to solve along the way, but we've ticked them off one by one, and made it to launch day.

This is really important because if you don't have the stage orientated perfectly with the heat shield down, then basically as the reentry process begins, it's like a big ball of plasma [ and ] it'll basically shred the stage.

This has a massive impact on the launch side.