221 b Good points. I guess when you look at RocketLab compared to the likes of NASA who have put humans on the moon and SpaceX who are about to launch humans later on this year, it looks like a small company, but if you look at the amount of time RocketLab has been around and like you said they’re the third private company to achieve orbit, on their way to regular launches, affordable business etc and now building a launch facility in the US as well, it’s not that little at all
That's the first launch of your rocket I see on youtube (subscribed from both my devices) - I've heard from Scott Manley about your company, but never seen the launch before. Congratulations! It all looks very mature: the video-cast, the commentary, the graphics is also nice (thou I dislike the choice of red as being traditionally the alert colour - dark rich orange maybe?) Good luck in rocket development and many paying customers to your venture! The more commercial launch providers out there - the better!
Has to be one of the most beautiful launch sites existing today? That said, I did a quick research on Rocket Labs... and is it true the Electron rocket's boosters are 3-D printed and more enviro friendly? True they are capable of producing 1 Electron rocket per week? Putting a 150kg sat into a 500km orbit for little as $6m?? Sounds like a game-changer there, congrats .
When the batteries are ejected they appear to be falling away, but they really are not. When ejected the batteries do not slow down, they are still travelling at 3km per sec, it is the 2 stage rocket that is accelerating away from them.
bukster1 were not too impressed. But it worked out the pollies finally pulled there finger out and started Aus space agency again. We had one in the 50-60’s and were the third nation after (Russia and USA) to launch a satellite into space. But I’m a huge fan of the electron rocket and NZ in general.
Jack Absalom always recommended a little Scotch in the water. Do you think that would do the trick, given your keen eyes for stuff that really matters in the overall scheme of things.
@21:40 Can someone tell me what I'm seeing? is the camera lens magnifying the image of the sun? Also is that the moon on the right? Os this a graphic RL put on screen or did they catch that surreal view accidentally?
Lens flare and the sun. The object on the right bottom corner might be the moon. It's position was fixed relative to the earth while the 2ng stage was rotating.
I think more companies will look towards batteries as they must reduce the amount of 'plumbing' considerably. Also on long flights the batteries could be solar charged between burns.
@@ITTechHead I wonder if these launch sites have their own specialites; Here: BBQ lamb. Cape Canaveral: Grilled Alligator. Kourou: Grilled Flamingo? Baikonur: I wonder.
@@Gibson99 They still cost millions of dollars -- but Rocket Lab said very clearly that they do not intend to develop reusability. Today, nobody except SpaceX can do propulsive landings -- primarily because landing thrust needs to be about 20 times lower than the thrust at take-off. Falcon 9 and Electron have nine engines. Using all nine at take-off makes it feasible to use one throttled down engine for the landing. One of the limits to how deeply Merlin 1D can be throttled down, comes from (in)stability of the gas generator that powers the turbo-pump. Having electric pumps instead, removes this limitations on throttling range of the engine -- provided there are no combustion instabilities of the main combustion chamber at lower thrust levels. It would seem that Rutherford engine with its electric fuel pumps might be ideally suited for propulsive landing.
@@cogoid all good points. I'm not disagreeing, just expanding on what you said. Unfortunately the mass of the landing gear and excess fuel required would severely eat away the already small payload capacity of the electron. Would also require a complete redesign of the fuselage to be able to handle the new stresses of re-entry and landing that it's probably not currently designed for. Having (briefly) seen a landed F9 booster in person, I can't imagine just how much mass a similar system would add to electron. F9 was able to add it because along with other improvements came increased thrust, so they weren't sacrificing payload capacity. But for RL it's not worth it right now. Maybe after they have a string of successful launches and a comfy amount of money in the bank to fund the r&d, they'll consider doing a clean sheet design of a reusable small sat booster, but right now, expendable is the right decision for them.
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Another wide-angle lens bus but much much more trickery than just that and it's a use a couple of different lenses actually it's just superimpose most of the time but you clearly see wash their Horizon right when they show you the split screen shot dumping the engine and you'll see that the Horizon is toward the outside of the frame with a curve to it and then as the Horizon drift toward the middle of the frame it starts to flatten out oh yeah but anyway that's not the real issue here especially with physics so for the record at about 3 minutes and 15 seconds those engines literally fall back to Earth just as they should and don't even tell me they're going that fast unless you watched camera footage of what a car taking off from a starting line looks like with a rear view yeah those get up yeah those get up to a couple hundred miles an hour really fast and this thing is supposedly doing thousands and thousands of miles per hour at the time of that engine drop off at 3 minutes and 15 seconds and look how slow it goes they want you to imagine that it's floating and that the rocket is just taking off from the engines right except those things are falling and tumbling and of course are affected by pressure cuz that's why they're tumbling but yeah just it's just a bad cartoon show and they kind of have to do it that way to make it brainwashing enough for the kids but anyone who knows physics knows there's so many problems with the time that it takes I mean amateur Rockets get up to this in just a few seconds like less than a minute it's a whole entire puppet show man that's why they get horizontal at like not even a hundred thousand feet I mean it's just a puppet show just look at when they get horizontal it's not even a hundred thousand feet and that's why you always see just one little Horizon like come on dude let's see a freely moving camera in someone's hands or at least on a remote turret so we can see everything I mean they've never done that not one single launch has given us that at least but it should every time be unedited uncut camera views like why don't you just show us all of the cameras on one screen without being cut away from or edited or anyting yeah it's never going to happen not even in the slightest you without being cut away from or edited or anyting yeah it's never going to happen not even in the slightest
Totally ridiculous, how can any entity keep track of an object in so called space when as we are told the earth is spinning st 1045 miles per hour from east to west and at the same time shooting through space at 66,666 miles per per hour, go figure!!!!!!!!!!!
all the best to darpa. good job. 2 years ago i would have screamed to see a rocket launch. But now nothing can excite me anymore since i saw 2 freaking booster landing back on earth. Falcon heavy has set an standard that is hard to beat. still good luck guys hope 2 see u achieve more impossible things and maybe beat spacex
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The quality of the stream has gone up another level, great job Rocket Lab 👍
I can't stop listening to the ignition sound, it's so damn GOOD!
Simply Space extreme goodness!
It is. Wonder if Mr Magpie is still puckering? :)
... engineers are like - Can't wait to hear that sound!! Heck, why wait to launch at zero?? ...6, 5, 4, 3 *launch* .
i cant blame you
Makes me proud to be a New Zealander to know we have our own (little) space programme. Very cool launches!
221 b Good points. I guess when you look at RocketLab compared to the likes of NASA who have put humans on the moon and SpaceX who are about to launch humans later on this year, it looks like a small company, but if you look at the amount of time RocketLab has been around and like you said they’re the third private company to achieve orbit, on their way to regular launches, affordable business etc and now building a launch facility in the US as well, it’s not that little at all
Its an american company with a new zealand subsidiary
@@gregorflopinski9016 It's a New Zealand invented company with US funding to be precise.
12:20 10 **cough**
theen.. *cough...* Im ill, nain... Eight...
tin .. nine .. eat .. sivin .. sex ..
Best countdown ever!
Great live stream ! Love the tui's in the back ground before launching and the sound of ignition it's incredible ! Thanks rocket lab !
The on-board cameras gave one of the best views I've seen in a while. Thoroughly enjoyed this. :)
That ignition sound is AWESOME
Awesome launch from my favourite rocket company right here in New Zealand. Can't wait for flight 6!
Watching this live, the stream skipped the countdown. I now feel complete again, thank you.
I was watching this live! Great launch, cant wait for another.
That ignition sound...
I gave Rocket Lab a mention in my new video explaining orbiting and inclination because you're clearly the coolest example to use ❤️
keyz, I'll subscribe to your channel
I subbed
That's the first launch of your rocket I see on youtube (subscribed from both my devices) - I've heard from Scott Manley about your company, but never seen the launch before. Congratulations! It all looks very mature: the video-cast, the commentary, the graphics is also nice (thou I dislike the choice of red as being traditionally the alert colour - dark rich orange maybe?) Good luck in rocket development and many paying customers to your venture! The more commercial launch providers out there - the better!
Has to be one of the most beautiful launch sites existing today? That said, I did a quick research on Rocket Labs... and is it true the Electron rocket's boosters are 3-D printed and more enviro friendly? True they are capable of producing 1 Electron rocket per week? Putting a 150kg sat into a 500km orbit for little as $6m?? Sounds like a game-changer there, congrats .
Yeeeee goes the rocket, into the sky, and beyond.
The new *R2D2* form that's now a rocket and is capable of flight now is *R3D2* , thought I'd never see this day.
After 5 delays... And 5 times of skipping school just to watch it... Finally...
Congratulations on 1,000,000 views!
I'm so happy to see this, ME AND MY FAMILY HAS BEEN HAUNTED!!
What a splendid little platform.
Great video great explanations, great graphics, great music. Thanks guys and keep up the great work 😎
13:40 barely says "max q"
just chilling there
You dont realize just how fast its going until it ejects the batteries. Prettu awesome
When the batteries are ejected they appear to be falling away, but they really are not. When ejected the batteries do not slow down, they are still travelling at 3km per sec, it is the 2 stage rocket that is accelerating away from them.
Very very impressive , so smooth , zero drama , the way it should be , enjoyed that , thanks team .
I am impressed by the upper stage Well done!
I gather the Australians are not happy that we have space program and they don't.
bukster1 were not too impressed. But it worked out the pollies finally pulled there finger out and started Aus space agency again. We had one in the 50-60’s and were the third nation after (Russia and USA) to launch a satellite into space. But I’m a huge fan of the electron rocket and NZ in general.
No worries - NZ is just a territory of Australia right? **ducks behind desk**
Nah, we're proud of our little Kiwi brothers and sisters!
Their spies were quite vocal around the launch site. Clearly audible on the video feed.
@@Zerububble you noticed too? ;)
Kiwis can fly so well! Congrats!
DARPA is American...
no satisfaction
This was in New Zealand
Im addicted to the ignition sound
Nice job! Video quality is looking great to.
Would be nice if you could provide some telemetry, like speed and altitude. Great stream!
Great webcast. There also seems to be fewer sparks from the engines, comparing to the previous launches?
Good job guys. Waiting for the launch.
Good job Rocket Lab!
Kudos to the whole team!
Very well made video. We appreciate it.
Was there ever an DARPA R2D2 launch?
Great job!
Really cool! I wish you could launch that in Brazil in the future now that we made a deal with the US.
Congratulations, ladies & gents. Great job.
R3D2? Is this the new improved R2D2? Can we look forward to the C3PO soon?
Congratulations Dr. LINDSAY MILLARD !
The water pre ignition seemed alittle weak, could see the shock wave come back up
Jack Absalom always recommended a little Scotch in the water. Do you think that would do the trick, given your keen eyes for stuff that really matters in the overall scheme of things.
Good work ! Still much success.
Well done Rock lab!
Cool Launch! were is the Trash??
probably somewhere in the pacific ocean
What is the noise reduction system like?
Whats the name of the intro song? Its so nice!
@21:40 Can someone tell me what I'm seeing? is the camera lens magnifying the image of the sun? Also is that the moon on the right? Os this a graphic RL put on screen or did they catch that surreal view accidentally?
Rewatched a few times, I guess it"s just a halo of sunlight, and part of the rocket lol
Lens flare and the sun. The object on the right bottom corner might be the moon. It's position was fixed relative to the earth while the 2ng stage was rotating.
I hope those birds hanging around launch had their hearing protection on.
The birds you can hear are Magpies from Australia.
Anthony
I FEEL LIKE CRYING
Congrats! See you in April!
this sounds like a marketing video
New Zealand is a country of 5 million; I suspect we are a wee bit proud of our technology. Are you not glad about the details shared?
I'm so happy
Difference from SpaceX is Electron wobbles more in its trajectory
congrats
best looking launch site ever! ho[e thers no NZ fur seals on that beach bro!
Y not R2D2?
i mean i loved it and i wach it 3-4X . but were i the trash?
Hah real or fake?
Real
Pero the rocket is not reusable and comeback like Falcon...
12:51 Run baby, Run!!
15:08 sound in space
12:56 for launch
Hot swap and jettison of used booster batteries a new one on me! I've been seeing launches since 1962!
Starphot it’s because the turbo pumps that feed the engines fuel are electricity powered
I think more companies will look towards batteries as they must reduce the amount of 'plumbing' considerably. Also on long flights the batteries could be solar charged between burns.
Stage 1 propulsion is nominal. Hi Alice and Finn❣️
AMAZiNG WORK ! :)
Just a bit more commentary would be great. Still awesome :)
Is the countdown said by an German speeking person? "sieben, sechs" (seven and six in german)
hahaha nah Kiwi accent mate
@@CallumInns thx, nice to know!
Saw on the google map that there likely is sheep nearby. Probably evacuated before this.
nope. BBQ lamb
@@ITTechHead I wonder if these launch sites have their own specialites; Here: BBQ lamb. Cape Canaveral: Grilled Alligator. Kourou: Grilled Flamingo? Baikonur: I wonder.
Good work guys. I cant wait to see you guys start to propulsive landing.
They wont . Not worth it
@@vinos1629 how is that?
@@runnerxc212 boosters this size are cheap and fairly easy to make. engines are 3d printed so also cheaper than traditional engines.
@@Gibson99 They still cost millions of dollars -- but Rocket Lab said very clearly that they do not intend to develop reusability.
Today, nobody except SpaceX can do propulsive landings -- primarily because landing thrust needs to be about 20 times lower than the thrust at take-off.
Falcon 9 and Electron have nine engines. Using all nine at take-off makes it feasible to use one throttled down engine for the landing.
One of the limits to how deeply Merlin 1D can be throttled down, comes from (in)stability of the gas generator that powers the turbo-pump. Having electric pumps instead, removes this limitations on throttling range of the engine -- provided there are no combustion instabilities of the main combustion chamber at lower thrust levels. It would seem that Rutherford engine with its electric fuel pumps might be ideally suited for propulsive landing.
@@cogoid all good points. I'm not disagreeing, just expanding on what you said.
Unfortunately the mass of the landing gear and excess fuel required would severely eat away the already small payload capacity of the electron. Would also require a complete redesign of the fuselage to be able to handle the new stresses of re-entry and landing that it's probably not currently designed for.
Having (briefly) seen a landed F9 booster in person, I can't imagine just how much mass a similar system would add to electron. F9 was able to add it because along with other improvements came increased thrust, so they weren't sacrificing payload capacity. But for RL it's not worth it right now. Maybe after they have a string of successful launches and a comfy amount of money in the bank to fund the r&d, they'll consider doing a clean sheet design of a reusable small sat booster, but right now, expendable is the right decision for them.
Yeetus the satellitus
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Apparently only a few people here understand that lol 😂🇺🇲👍🏻
wow very nice very good!!
Another wide-angle lens bus but much much more trickery than just that and it's a use a couple of different lenses actually it's just superimpose most of the time but you clearly see wash their Horizon right when they show you the split screen shot dumping the engine and you'll see that the Horizon is toward the outside of the frame with a curve to it and then as the Horizon drift toward the middle of the frame it starts to flatten out oh yeah but anyway that's not the real issue here especially with physics so for the record at about 3 minutes and 15 seconds those engines literally fall back to Earth just as they should and don't even tell me they're going that fast unless you watched camera footage of what a car taking off from a starting line looks like with a rear view yeah those get up yeah those get up to a couple hundred miles an hour really fast and this thing is supposedly doing thousands and thousands of miles per hour at the time of that engine drop off at 3 minutes and 15 seconds and look how slow it goes they want you to imagine that it's floating and that the rocket is just taking off from the engines right except those things are falling and tumbling and of course are affected by pressure cuz that's why they're tumbling but yeah just it's just a bad cartoon show and they kind of have to do it that way to make it brainwashing enough for the kids but anyone who knows physics knows there's so many problems with the time that it takes I mean amateur Rockets get up to this in just a few seconds like less than a minute it's a whole entire puppet show man that's why they get horizontal at like not even a hundred thousand feet I mean it's just a puppet show just look at when they get horizontal it's not even a hundred thousand feet and that's why you always see just one little Horizon like come on dude let's see a freely moving camera in someone's hands or at least on a remote turret so we can see everything I mean they've never done that not one single launch has given us that at least but it should every time be unedited uncut camera views like why don't you just show us all of the cameras on one screen without being cut away from or edited or anyting yeah it's never going to happen not even in the slightest you without being cut away from or edited or anyting yeah it's never going to happen not even in the slightest
So yall tryna make a laser beam from space too lol
Totally ridiculous, how can any entity keep track of an object in so called space when as we are told the earth is spinning st 1045 miles per hour from east to west and at the same time shooting through space at 66,666 miles per per hour, go figure!!!!!!!!!!!
Choice rocket
Elon and his mates visited 15 times
no cheering ?
Seemed quite squirmy. Engines were overcontrolling, maybe? Perhaps damp them some?
R3D2?? seriously?
Whats with the Tui communications New encryption systems ?
Compared to Falcon 9 that's what you call a pocket rocket.
all the best to darpa. good job.
2 years ago i would have screamed to see a rocket launch. But now nothing can excite me anymore since i saw 2 freaking booster landing back on earth. Falcon heavy has set an standard that is hard to beat.
still good luck guys hope 2 see u achieve more impossible things and maybe beat spacex
mkay, I'll wait till april.
good job
What exactly is the Pay load. In Plain English. Just curious.
Thanks for monetizing your vids...
Sweet.
I have watched this at school and If you don't no how I no about this my teacher tod me about it like if you watched this at school to
Nice animation 🤣🤣🤣
Hahahahaha Kiwi accent, 6 = Sex.....
a plane sound ...
21:37
12:51 poor black sheeeps must be thinking end of the world or something.
12:19
banned for ear rape
Glitch
Wow. Cook these guys some fucking eggs.
STAR WARS DROİD GO TO SPACE
Só CGI,e papel alumínio.
Haha he said 9 8 7 sex 5 4 3 2