{"id":1175157,"date":"2023-08-24T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1175157"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:09:32","slug":"the-re-flight-of-a-rutherford-engine-demonstrates-rocket-reuse-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1175157","title":{"rendered":"The re-flight of a Rutherford engine demonstrates rocket reuse is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/F4QsPvSbwAAgL15-800x517-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket Lab launches an Electron booster with a previously flown engine on Thursday. \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/F4QsPvSbwAAgL15-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1653\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Rocket Lab launches an Electron booster with a previously flown engine on Thursday.  (credit: Rocket Lab)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rocket Lab launched its 40th Electron mission this week and achieved an important milestone in its quest to reuse orbital rockets. As part of the mission, the launch company reused a previously flown Rutherford engine on its first stage for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of orbital rockets, only NASA&#8217;s space shuttle and SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 vehicles have demonstrated the capability of re-flying an engine. With Rutherford, Rocket Lab has now also flown a rocket engine that landed in the ocean for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Electron mission, which launched a satellite for Capella Space on Thursday morning from New Zealand, Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck confirmed that the Rutherford engine performed well in its second flight. &#8220;The data is in, perfect performance from the reused engine and the stage,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Peter_J_Beck\/status\/1694500990177993153\">Beck said<\/a> on X, the social networking site formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962793#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962793&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1962793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The re-flight of a Rutherford engine demonstrates rocket reuse is here to stay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Rocket Lab launches an Electron booster with a previously flown engine on Thursday. (credit: Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab launched its 40th Electron mission this week and achieved an important milestone in its quest to reuse orbital rockets. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1175157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1175157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1175158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}