Disclaimer: I own some RKLB and believe it's going to be really big.
Rocket Lab had a successful launch and recovery test yesterday.
The stock popped AH when people saw the helicopter grab the booster out of the sky.
This morning, however, they heard that the booster was subsequently dropped into the ocean, and tanked the stock.
The sellers seem to have expected the booster to be landed, and haven't considered that this was a test to determine the mass properties (balance, distribution, inertial momentum, etc) of the real booster on the hook vs the mass-simulator tests that used a small, dense object that represented only the weight.
So right now it's down 3.5% and all it did was prove why the pop last night was the right thing to do.
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