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Rocket Lab is currently hiring for numerous marine positions related to the development of the Neutron rocket landing barge (x.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/rocketlab@lemmy.nz

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https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1819097810517586100

Rocket Lab is currently hiring for numerous marine positions related to the development of the Neutron rocket landing barge. The available roles include:

Marine Operations & Logistics Lead

Recovery Engineers (II, Senior, and Lead)

Marine Commodity Managers (Supply Chain)

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/careers/positions/

Interesting that Rocket Lab is now considering barge landings for Neutron. This contrasts with one of the early concept videos where they stated that Neutron would always RTLS (return to launch site), and not land on a barge.

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Sir Beck has another hat to eat

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I don't think he ever staked a hat on that particular claim, but...

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

He learned his lesson, otherwise he'd have a multi course meal between reuse, building a bigger rocket, Archimedes switching from gas generator to staged combustion, Neutron barge landings...

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From a delta V point of view, barge landing makes a lot of sense.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's a (relatively) simple way to get more performance out of a booster while still being able to recover it.