UP Aerospace today recovered its rocket launched Monday from Spaceport America.
The company announced that it also recovered the payloads and is returning them to customers.
“We were absolutely determined to find the vehicle and provide the payloads and experiments back to our launch partners,” CEO Eric Knight said. “We’ve spoken to our launch partners this morning, and they’re ecstatic over the news of the recovery.”
The company hopes recovery of the rocket will help determine what went wrong nine seconds into Monday’s launch, so any problems can be corrected before the next launch on Oct. 21.