Mission Success For Rocket Lab. The Rocket Lab Engineers at Long Beach, California, have already confirmed the capture of a falling rocket stage out of the air with a helicopter before it dropped into the South Pacific Ocean, Rocket lab USA works on reliable and flight proven satellite subsystems and is independent of NASA and SpaceX. It is not clear, if Rocket Lab USA plans to re-use the booster similar to SpaceX Falcon9. Rocket Lab Mission was independent of Nasa and SpaceX technologies.