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Old 7th Oct 2022, 07:38
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Originally Posted by nowherespecial
212man is right. Only 1x S-92 in NZ and it's with advanced flight/ rocket lab doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CWGDhkmbs
S92 in NZ is used for catching the boosters which are not that heavy. The issue they have is how far they have to go to catch it. Thanks to big tanks and GE engines they have a good range.

"Down range" normally involves a lot of water naturally.

As I don't think they have successfully caught a used booster from a mission yet I am not sure if the procedure is to drop it on a support vessel or drag it home which may not be feasible.

ZK-HEV and you can track it obviously but it doesn't seem to have done much for a couple of months. There was talk of it being used for PAX flights between manufacturing facility and launch site.
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