Watch Rocket Lab attempt to recover a rocket to reuse it! #babycomeback

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hi it's me Tim Dodd the everyday astronaut welcome to uh an exciting launch here tonight because we're going to see rocket lab uh attempt to recover their uh their their electron booster and I always like seeing any kind of stuff like this oh and actually their stream is starting to pop up so this is good news means uh they're on track they would have started the stream if they weren't going to be doing that so that's great news I love seeing that so as always guys whenever we're about to You Know cover rocket launch and you guys have the same questions where is this launching from uh is it Landing what's it carrying etc etc uh we always have you covered here at everyday astronaut so uh that being said let's head on over to everydayastronaut.com we can click on the upcoming launches tab at the top and we can go through our pre-launch preview so this is for the mission Baby Come Back I wonder why they named it that I I just I have no idea I have no idea do you guys have any idea um obviously it's because the booster is returning and they're going to be trying to this one's a little bit new and improved we'll talk about a little bit more in a second and uh and we'll talk about how they're planning to recover and what changed but for now let's go through all the facts for you guys as you can see the launch is going to be happening in about 22 minutes uh that's at 127 UTC or uh 127 or sorry 1327 uh New Zealand Standard Time the mission name is of course again baby come back and it is a ride share Mission the launch provider this is rocket lab obviously hopefully you saw the title and stuff uh the customer who's paying for this this is a cool one that says NASA payloads uh space flight laboratory or SFL and Spire Global the rocket is the only one that is currently flying from rocket lab and that is the electron rocket there mighty mighty little uh rocket uh which is just amazing and then uh let's see here this then there's the launch location it's taking us taking off from launch complex 1B so the second pad down there at the Mahia peninsula in New Zealand the payload mass for this only 86 kilograms and that's the beauty of uh of small sets and small rocket launches that's that's a very lightweight payload well within the capabilities of the electron rocket the electron can launch a little over 300 kilograms these days uh depending on where it's going but this is going out to a 1 000 kilometer Sun synchronous orbit so that's actually a pretty um high altitude Sun synchronous orbit so it probably will take a lot of the uh a lot of the energy of the electron rocket to be able to hit that orbit so it's a higher orbit and it says Sun synchronous orbit so it's going to take more energy to get there than a standard um you know and in their case kind of a low inclination orbit would be I think they're like 38 degrees or something straight East would be the maximum they can they can launch this is going to take a payload hit because it's not getting the full rotation of the earth sorry long tangent but will they be attempting to recover the first stage yes this is one of the only other companies that we can you know say that they're working on uh recovering Rockets besides on WE stream SpaceX stuff they are attempting to recover the first stage uh where will they be attempting now here's the thing they have given up on the helicopter recovery basically realizing like hey it's not actually worth it um for whatever reason they're you know they had a couple tries uh with decent results actually physically catching it once and then having to release it you know Catch and Release um and you know they they had okay success but I think at the end of the day uh the boosters were actually looking so good when they did splash down they basically just said what if we just kind of tweak these a little bit more just to be a little bit better at uh splashing down right that's kind of the theory is you know if we just make these things more gooder at splashing down then they can uh then we can just do that you know and I I think that's probably the right way to be doing this um at least they think that's the right way to do that and I wouldn't doubt them so um that's what we're going to be seeing is them splashing it down and then recovering it with an updated recovery method from their ship now will they uh be attempting to recover pherings nope that's still something that only SpaceX to my knowledge is is actively doing oh and their stream is actually starting so uh give me a second we will pull that up here in a little bit because I do want to listen I think they're going to give us some updates this is the six rocket lab launch of this year the fourth launch from launch complex 1B the 39th electron launch ever and the 105th orbital launch attempt throughout the world crazy um go ahead and read through the rest of this article here if you guys want um it's it's a great article telling you especially about the the NASA's Starling don't get a computer starlink Starling program it's a really cool swarm concept and a few other cool things here but I'm going to pull up their stuff here so that we can listen in and learn together and I will there's a lot of people I gotta thank too so I'll be uh getting in there soon but first off real quick before we get out of here say thank you to Maria for writing this article everyone in chat say thank you we're gonna hop on over and listen in see what we learn all right let's do this thank you hello and welcome to the live webcast of our 39th electron mission called Baby come back it is now 107 on the 18th of July New Zealand Standard time and we are at T minus 18 minutes to today's electron launch I'm Imogen Ray and I'm James rattray and we're here at Rocket Labs Mission Control Center to guide you through today's journey to space a ride share mission for three customers from pad B at launch complex one you might have noticed the red paint Scheme on electron today that's right on top of the primary mission to deploy customers satellites to orbit we will attempt to recover electrons booster from the ocean after it returns to earth under a parachute launch preparations are going well and electron is vertical and ready on pad B we are scheduled to launch today at 1327 local time or 127 UTC for those watching in the US that is 2127 Eastern or 1827 Pacific we have multiple backup opportunities throughout the remainder of this two-week window in case we're unable to launch today those launch timings remain the same for every day of the window should we need to reschedule for any reason the good news though is that all operations are currently running smoothly and we're continuing the pre-launch procedures as we approach t0 we've got a ton of information to share about today's Mission so let's get started absolutely baby come back we'll launch a total of seven satellites to a sun synchronous orbit for three customers writing on today's mission is a spacecraft for space flight Laboratories four cubesats for NASA and two satellites for Spire Global let's get into a bit more detail about these payloads in order of deployment first off the payload plate will be the four cubesats from NASA as part of the agency's Starling Mission designed to test Technologies to enable future swarm missions spacecraft swarms refer to multiple spacecraft autonomously coordinating their activities on orbit as one here's more from NASA groups of self-coordinating spacecraft okay unfortunately half the time these videos have uh as those of you that watch these often they might have a copyrighted music and then we get a copyright strike and it can even get so bad sometimes it'll shut our stream down so that being said we can learn more about this later but this is their time with the Swarm uh of of satellites how they're able to autonomously control themselves which is a really cool concept um let's see here I wanted to um just kind of read through a few of your guys's comments while we can and I'll get through as many of them as I can as well this one comes from Merrick Stern thank you so much for your channel I started not knowing the difference in the Falcon 1 and Starship now I know nearly everything about rocket science thank you so much that's what I love to hear of course those of you that happen to be tuning in now I assume most of you are probably long time viewers raise your hand if you're subscribed and you've been here for a long time let's see it but I'm guessing you know there's always a few new people that trickle in the idea of everyday astronauts to get you guys excited about space flight and and rocket science and and astronomy all all space Sciences basically anything that's you know pushing Humanity forward uh into the stars and there's a lot of things to be excited about on this day and age with more Rockets launching than ever before with long with rockets being reused and recovered and uh and people exploring more than they've explored before with humans returning to the moon for the first time in 50 years so welcome and I hope you guys learned something along with me as as well and joining NASA's styling spacecraft are a pair of satellites for expire Global spiers two three U satellites are carrying Global navigation satellite system radio occultation payloads to replenish its fully deployed constellation of more than a hundred multi-purpose satellites spiers satellites observe the Earth in real time using radio frequency technology the data acquired by their gnss Ro payloads provide global weather intelligence that can be assimilated into weather models to improve the accuracy of forecasts Spire is the largest producer of gmss Ro weather data collecting over 20 000 radio occultation profiles every single day fun fact Spire satellites flew on our very first commercial electron launch to orbit all the way back in 2018 on the steel testing Mission so it's great to have Spire back on board electron today all these years later let's learn a little bit more about radio occultation from spire okay and again to avoid copyright strikes uh I'll answer a few more questions here uh and again remember guys you don't have to like super chat or anything we just pull up good questions so if you have a good question we will answer it and this is a great one from definitive um is this a SpaceX style uh powered return to land or drone or a parachute style return so they use a parachute and in fact they actually modified and hopefully they talk about that they modified their parachute a little bit uh on today's Mission since they are no longer trying to Arrow capture it and they're no longer using a helicopter they don't care so much about uh how much time it spends gliding and having any kind of you know uh long Air Hang Time so they can grab it easier they're more just worried about making it lightweight and splash down softly so they've they've modified it and made it so it's it's just you know just more again good or sorry at that um and uh yeah hopefully hopefully we see that system work really well today and have a nice safe smooth Splashdown um let's see this is from uh John Monroe I'm in Christchurch anyone know of a good tool to pinpoint the location of the rocket as it swings on by something like flight radar but for a rocket rather than planes yes you need to look up flightclub.io that's Flight f-l-i-g-h-t Club dot IO um uh Declan plots out the trajectories of rockets and you can actually see in real time uh what it's going to look like and where it'll be in the sky our vertical integration philosophy into action today both NASA and Spire are using our in-house designed and built Maxwell satellite dispensers to just deploy their payloads from electrons kickstage on today's mission finally we have the Leo 3 demonstration micro satellite built by spaceflight laboratory for telesap the Leo 3 satellite will provide continuity for customer and vendor testing campaigns following the decommissioning of telesat's phase one Leo satellite once deployed to orbit Leo 3 will operate under an existing itu Network filing for telesets Lightspeed the company's Enterprise Leo constellation we're looking forward to hearing more about our customers achieving their science missions over the next few months but for now let's check in on the clock as we are at T minus 12 minutes and 19 seconds which means it's time to listen in to our launch director for the final go no go poll as we proceed through the final minutes of the countdown each operator will now check in from their stations to confirm all systems are go for launch I love a good go no go poll all operators this is the LD on Mission proceeding with the go no-go sequence stage stages go Avionics avionics is good GNC gncsgo beacon beacon let's go T1 T1 let's go GC GCS go PLS PLS go RSO all right so let's go met that is go RF mm is go recovery recovery is go ld7 healthy suppers go that completes the go no go sequence we are team on its 11 minutes 21 seconds and counting we are go for terminal count at T minus 10 minutes from this time the three word hold procedure is in effect so if we hear here hold hold hold hold it'll uh that's they they'd stop the terminal count and maybe reset it or maybe it means discovered for the day but um hopefully it comes there from launch director Joseph capico and the team in Mission Control confirming that we'll be proceeding with the rest of today's countdown and moving forward to liftoff in approximately 10 minutes and 45 seconds cool we'd love to hear it now I did say I did want to mention um let's see if we can fit this in it's a good question from musical wolves um let's see just in case they don't count I'm gonna start saying this and of course I don't want to interrupt them so here we go has anything this is for musical is a good friend has anything been done to the engine or body of the rocket to protect it from the salt water as Splashdown yes they actually uh tweeted earlier uh yesterday or today that they've just made some tweaks and I think Peter Beck even did a little a little snippet with somebody um just saying that they have actually sealed the rocket up a little bit better to be a little bit more go ahead juicy stage one ignite a precious verified hydraulic pressure is verified Roger thank you sir as always today's primary mission is deploying our customers satellites to orbit but as we hinted at before we're also very excited to have a secondary objective today to recover electron's first stage as part of our reusability program after completing multiple Marine recoveries and perfecting the process we are going all in on this method which involves gently splashing electron down in the ocean under a parachute and then extracting it onto our recovery vessel for transport to our Factory for refurbishment and eventual reflight the electron vehicle today features new Innovations developed as a result of the Lessons Learned on previous recovery missions this one features improved sealing Solutions within the interstage and power pack and some internal components on the first stage Rutherford have been adapted for improved saltwater resilience if you keep a close eye on stage separation about two and a half minutes into flight you should be able to catch a glimpse of the ceiling as the first and second stages separate revealing the inside of the interstage let's hear a little bit more about the progress our recovery team has made on making electron the world's first reusable small launch vehicle okay so I'm gonna duck it out when there's music just so we don't get copyright strikes and let's see if okay here we go see behind me it's red for Recovery um we've developed from going from aerial capture um and we've recently inhibited to um Marine retrieval this gave us a few extra challenges but with the engineers that we have at Rocket lab we were able to introduce some simple ceiling Solutions which will enable reusability over the last year we've been working pretty hard in the background to re-qualify assess inspect the hardware from previous returned rockets and what confidence level in relaunch is is 100 I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't believe in the program and what we're about to do we're in a very fortunate position to have Hardware that is easy to be dispositioned for reuse and we can do this on multiple Cycles we've been working in the back is that like a little does anyone know what that was is that a sonar like a some kind of radar penetration or sound penetration or something that could look at the uh you know how things are look for any kind of cracks in the structure or anything I've never seen that exact tool before but I'm sure someone out there probably knows exactly what that is and probably uses it every day or something so if anyone knows what that is let me know that was really cool um here let's keep listening with new solutions to get the vehicle back to the factory for Reef ultrasonic testers whatever one non-destructible just look at you guys I love this this is what I love about sonar yeah you're right that wouldn't be a very hey I mean if there's a baby inside there maybe it'd make sense but thank you guys over a series of rockets um we're introducing minor changes um for flight 39 41 I'll have a few more 45 will be our Golden Child which is going to have all our ceiling changes and this is going to enable us to disposition the vehicle accurately for reuse and create that that historic information that we need to be able to disposition the vehicle for its life cycles and eventually turn the whole production into more of a Fleet Management style production and overall putting the company in a better position to launch more frequent [Music] so cool so yeah they're they've made some tweaks you can tell the inner stage was all like black now which is really cool is Marine retrieval we'll be following a similar process to our previous recovery attempts using a capture apparatus that you can see there on your screen to lift electron on board the recovery vessel here's what we can expect from today's recovery attempt around two and a half minutes after liftoff electrons first and second stages will separate as normal and electron second stage will continue into orbit where the kick stage will separate and deploy the satellites back on the first stage though with all nine Rutherford engines shut down a reaction control system will reorient the stage to place it on the correct angle of attack to enable it to survive the brutal re-entry environment what we call the wall during its descent back to Earth at around seven minutes after liftoff a drogue parachute will be deployed to increase drag and to stabilize the first stage as it descends in the final kilometers of descent a large main parachute will be deployed to further slow the stage and enable a controlled Splashdown once the stage is aboard the recovery vessel our team will then begin the flushing and preservation steps to remove salt water prevent corrosion and secure the stage for the return Voyage to our production complex today's Mission and is another major step forward in our plan to evolve electron into a reusable rocket and we're taking all of this experience into the development of our medium lift rocket neutron as well all right it's now T minus five minutes before liftoff but before we get to that let's take a quick look back at our most recent launch one you might not have watched yet last month we launched our first sub-orbital mission using haste our Hypersonic accelerator suborbital test bed electron vehicle this mission called Scouts Arrow lifted off from launch complex 2 and was a large-scale test in partnership with Lidos for the mark TV program which is designed to increase the speed of testing for commercially available Hypersonic systems let's check out that launch we again for sure this oh maybe it doesn't Hypersonic so and so basically they just they launched a shallow profile where they can reach Hypersonic speed so you know beyond Supersonic and there was a lot of things that a lot of research being done in this world we actually just I think I woke up this morning seeing or maybe yesterday that China even showed some footage of a Hypersonic test which is really unusual to be kind of showing that kind of stuff off um but yeah you can see it's it's pretty much a normal electron rocket but they just instead of aiming uh you know to get into space and then uh to get into orbit they basically are just trying to stay up in the upper atmosphere and reach Hypersonic speeds using rocket propulsion to be able to test uh Material Sciences and who knows all what sorts of things and there you go that's what that is about Scout Arrow was our third mission from lc2 in Virginia this year following our first two launches in January and then in March demonstrating an impressive launch Cadence from our team as well as tremendous continued support from NASA Wallops and the Virginia Spaceport Authority at T minus three minutes and four seconds away from launch electron remains in good health and the satellites inside the fairing are good to go the weather is Trend in green and the path to orbit is looking clear from launch complex one at t0 soon we'll hear the call that locks top off is complete on electron telling us that the rocket is fully fueled for launch when the rocket has completed fueling electron takes over electron's internal computers excuse me take over the countdown to run the vehicle autonomously at T-minus two minutes of course you know the drill from T minus 10 seconds will hear the launch director Joseph carpico count down the final seconds before electrons nine Rutherford engines ignite three seconds before liftoff we're going to hand over now to Mission Control to follow along for those final moments before liftoff I did want to point out uh t elx Twix text I have no idea how to say that uh have they been able to successfully pull us off in the past or will this be the first time so they've actually done multiple Splash successful splashdowns a few of them were attempted Air recovery using the helicopter they ended up just eventually splashing down but they've also just splashed them down I think this is probably the fifth or the sixth maybe we actually had in our pre-launch preview and I don't remember already vehicle is on internal power but yes they have very successfully done it but they're trying to make the rocket more and more uh resilient and uh I guess prepared for water recovery and hopefully uh make progress towards actually reusing eventually an entire rocket this could be the first one this comes back and looks great this could be the first one to actually be reflown but you know box loads is complete system is in recirculation an iterative step afts is green enabled for flight terminations go is disabled that there's uh you will see kind of condensation floating around it's not smoke that is actually just from evaporators and different things that are really really cold so there's actually liquid oxygen on the vehicle which is minus 183 degrees or whatever Celsius very cold so that tank you can actually see stage one stage two pressed for flight it normally looks silver from the paint on the carbon fiber I better just shut up but what's white is from where the liquid oxygen is being held so it's really cold and that's literally ice built up on it okay I'll be quiet now it's time to go T-minus 20 seconds and counting oh pointy end is up flaming it is down thank you guys ten nine eight seven six five four three two one lift off lift off the vehicle has included the pad saving launch pad there go the cow is running sheep running stage one propulsion nominal that's likely water actually and let's lift off our 39th electron launch vehicle is in the sky for this Mission and progressing well on its way to Sun synchronous orbit the first major milestone in Flight is Max Q or maximum aerodynamic pressure just ahead of one minute 20 seconds electron will push through the highest amount of aerodynamic stress it experiences beautiful approaching Max Q clad Max Q and with word from Mission Control we can confirm that electron has successfully passed through maxq and is continuing on its Southeastern trajectory off the coast of New Zealand the first stage's Rutherford engines are firing nominally as we come up to the next series of events in the vehicle's launch profile starting with main engine cutoff or Miko electron will go through a clean separation of the first and second stages before the single Rutherford engine on the second stage curtains fires up and takes the vehicle satellites the rest of the way into orbit we should see those actions on screen and hear the call outs from Mission Control operators shortly I should point out this kind of Separation then marks the first step in today's recovery Mission as well as that first stage reaches apogee before making its Journey Back Down to Earth to point out that silver thing you guys see kind of on the left hand side of the of the where the red line is that's 15 seconds to staging entered Bruno detect mode that's a cold gas Thruster to help Orient the booster to maintain proper orientation as it falls back through the atmosphere there's going to be confirmed [Applause] and there we go we have confirmed a successful transition from the first to second stages of electrons flight with Miko stage separation and second stage engine start all nominal you can now see the orange glow of the space optimized Rutherford engine as it carries the payload fairing the protective Shell at the top of electron protects the satellites but since we've cleared the lower atmosphere they don't need this protection anymore let's keep an eye out for when the payload Fairing and there it goes to get rid of all that dead weight and we've seen it just fall away awesome everything's looking fantastic velocity is still climbing that's great so what I was going to say we were seeing a view from kind of looking down the rocket like this almost like the camera is up here and looking down at the cold gas Thruster that's what orients the booster so we've got some time before the next Milestone so let's take a look at the booster returning to Earth on the left of your screen everything's looking good there a couple of minutes ago the engine's shut down on that first stage and after the booster reached apogee uh the reaction control system kicked in to reorient itself to place it on an Ideal angle of attack for re-entry during re-entry electron will reach around eight times the speed of sound on its descent and the air around electron will heat up to 2400 degrees Celsius generating an extremely hot plasma that creates a red orange glow around the business end of the stage so you'll notice the booster is flattening out it's it's going to it's still climbing because it had a lot of inertia so it was you know it was basically coasting up eventually it'll hit zero Vertical Velocity and then be falling back down so you're going to see this taper off and it's going to just be a curve I love that they have these trajectories up online up on screen that is amazing second stage almost looks like it's over performing which is at stage one booster is doing well on its way back to Earth and stage two is making light work of its journey to orbit you can see on the graphs there stage one has looks like just reached epigenas starting its descent back to Earth and stage two is well on its way electron's second stage moving at a speed of 11 000 kilometers an hour and just passing through 192 kilometers in altitude yep so about 145 kilometers Peak altitude for stage one just a little over which is awesome stage two is still climbing but the important thing is not necessarily just climbing it's also mostly increasing its velocity that's how you get it into orbit that's actually the video I'm working on right now and almost done with is comparing orbit versus space and kind of what those two terms are and why getting into orbit is such a big deal compared to just getting into space uh we go through exactly 100 seconds remaining and all this fun stuff back to the primary Mission here we're coming up to a milestone you'll see used only on electron the swap out of our batteries that our second stage Rutherford engine draws its energy from to run its electric pumps the vehicle has run through the set of batteries we used for stage two ignition so now we need to swap over to a fresh set to keep things going we call this move the battery hot swap we should hear that call come from Mission Control shortly but keep an eye on your screen too as you might just catch a glimpse of them Falling Away yeah you usually do to see this box disappear there goes the swap successful and there goes the call for a successful battery hot swap listening out now for confirmation of the deployment of the drug shoot on stage one that'll bring the initial velocity of the booster down to about a third from around Mark 1.4 to just Mark 0.5 now we're just open to see some data from the booster at some point here afts is safe turned off flight termination system the automatic flight termination system I don't know if that's on first stage or second stage likely first stage actually because second stage is still cruising along but it's probably the point too where if it did turn off it'd burn up on re-entry which would keep public safe that's the whole purpose of the flight terminations is keep the public safe if something were to be all phenomenal so yeah the it's it's likely that we don't have Telemetry from the booster as it's going through re-entry uh there's a literal plasma trail that makes it really hard to communicate and really hard to transmit data through so it's not unusual that we wouldn't have anything at this point um we I know they're kind of hoping to at least be able to cover the booster recovery at some point so we'll see if we get some footage of that previously confirms so they have confirmation of the drug shoot it sounds like that's great that's the first of the two shoots and we're just confirming that we have just heard from mission control over the Nets that we have had a nominal drogue shoot deploy this will demonstrate a significant reduction in velocity for our first stage ahead of the deployment of our much larger main parachute which will take electron to a soft Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean where our recovery vessel is awaiting to scoop it out of the water and begin that desalting process stage two propulsion holding nominal cancer is in terminal 20 seconds remaining stage one main should deployed and confirmed on video oh good hopefully we get to see that they have the main parachute and that's confirmation from the team in Mission Control the stage one main shoot has deployed and the booster is on about a seven minute Journey back down to the water meanwhile in space where that stage two is varying our customers spacecraft to the orbital destination we're moving at a very brisk 28 000 kilometers an hour and it looks like we've just had stage two shutdown [Applause] awesome work nominal transfer orbit achieved that looked good and with that nozzle Cooling and confirmation from Mission Control we've had a successful second engine cut off and kickstage separation today's satellites are headed to a sun synchronous orbit but as we mentioned before our kickstage is on an elliptical first pass it needs propulsion to course correct and Orient it in the right trajectory for payload deployment and that's where the Curie engine comes in the first payload deployment sequence is scheduled for around 30 minutes from now with a second scheduled for about an hour after about at t plus 1 hour and 40 minutes we won't have live video of payload deployment for this Mission but we will continue to follow along and listen out for those final few calls from mission control as well as animated views of the end of the mission to visualize what happens in space when they do deploy before we take a break we might want to have a bit of a check-in on the recovery again I'm not sure if we've got that camera available but I'm told that the recovery crew are patiently waiting for booster splash down in the ocean and once that booster is in the water the crew will use their capture apparatus to grab the stage from the ocean and bring it aboard if we get that recovery vessel camera back we'll bring it to you as long as we have but for now we'll take a little bit of a break and we'll come back to you in a few minutes with confirmation of booster Splashdown we'll be back with you shortly cool oh and look I don't worry about this music getting uh copyright striked because it's my own music that's always fun thanks for using my music Rocket lab you guys are awesome for more reasons than one so yeah okay so just to kind of catch you up on everything the the upper stage um is and specifically the kickstage so on top of the second stage there's actually another little stage called a kickstage and that is going to be coasting up to the highest point um and circularizing the orbit to get it into its final Sun synchronous orbit so that's what we're kind of waiting on now is uh is it will do that they said it in about 30 minutes it'll do the uh the correction burn which will get them into the circular orbit again this is a topic that we're literally that you'll learn a lot about hopefully even if you're even if you know I always hope that you learned something in my videos um no matter how big of an expert but I I dive into space versus Orbit and all of the different things we get pretty nerdy about the Carmen line we get into orbital velocity how you raise and lower in orbit um all sorts of things this is kind of page one or uh you know part one of a a little bit bigger video uh that will come up after this like that one I can't wait for because it's going so let me know that that's where we're at there the booster looked like they uh they had video Telemetry and confirmation of it as well as all the fact that the drug shoot went out the the main shoot went out everything was looking fantastic that's what we love to hear so hopefully we are uh I'm just gonna move this so you guys yeah okay so hopefully everything is fantastic there um and hopefully they recover it safely and they get some uh they like what they see when the booster is sitting in the water so um that's pretty much where we're at there yeah what other questions you guys have looks like you have a lot of questions we have a long time I probably won't stream the whole time I'll wait for good confirmation and oh and again remember they're trying to get video back to us they are literally in the middle of the ocean uh you know a long ways away from infrastructure and things like that I I bet they're probably relying on starlink to be able to transmit video data um and uh sometimes you know I I know the pains all too well of trying to live stream let alone live streaming in the middle of the ocean would be very hard so I I expect you know there can be so many little problems encoders overheating or blah blah blah the sink got out of blah blah blah you know the huni nanny and the SDI cable all of a sudden you know so I I'm totally fine if we don't see any video I'm I it doesn't matter to me I know probably everyone is excited to see the recovery but uh the important thing is the recovery itself obviously and look there it says right there now playing cryo by everyday astronaut I do know that guy so let's see here um speaking hey from Tom Brooks um saying uh I love your music Tim thanks you are also good at space stuff well I appreciate that don't forget guys all my music is available on Spotify and wherever you guys uh listen to music uh iTunes all all of the normal places you'll find my music so that's always a fun way to you know I try to make music that's uh good for the background of things if you're studying or or playing video games or I don't know Runner a walk and try to just kind of make chill background music so um yeah if you're looking for something to listen to this summer or I guess if you're in New Zealand this winter uh yeah check it out everyday astronaut you'll find it it's free to listen I'm assuming you have all of the normal things in life okay this is awesome from John Wolf thank you so much that it took me this long to get to this comment but huge thank you for the huge tip thank you so much John Wolf uh rocket lab is my favorite space Company please make live streams about them more often well I'll tell you what I try to stream because here's the deal I think you guys know this by now historically this is so funny it's just so weird since the start of the channel I've almost always done about a live stream a month give or take you know sometimes there'll be a two-month Gap if I'm if I'm busy uh sometimes I'm traveling or doing something that does not allow me to do a stream I think the longest I've ever gone is maybe like a three month streak or something without streaming um no probably not even that we'll say on average about once a month right that's kind of always been the case but now SpaceX is launching so often that it feels like I'm not streaming people are like why don't you stream anymore I'm like I've just been kind of doing the same thing I've always done which is you know streaming about once a month and specifically missions that I'm excited about um and I I do try to get as many rocket lab streams as I can just because they're you know less frequent they're on average between one and two a month um and lately for the last like six months every time there was a stream I had like some conflict like my mom's birthday or something that was just like I can't miss that to stream this you know and I really want to uh so yeah I'm glad that I was able to live stream a rocket lab launch first time in a while by the way you guys should notice I I sorry I should have mentioned this it might look like the rocket is actually going retrograde and that is in fact because it kind of is it's actually technically going slightly retrograde uh Sun synchronous orbit is uh at like 97 degrees or something so it's actually beyond straight South it actually flies a little bit West so it does actually have to counter the rotation of the earth which is also why it takes more energy while you can't take as much payload to that spot as you could uh a more equatorial or a low inclination orbit yeah let me uh keep looking here um let's see this is from um electronic is electronic kinesis I might have said that I'm really glad that private space companies are springing up and innovating it is an exciting time to be a space flight fan there are so many Rocky companies trying so many cool Concepts this is the type of stuff that you know I think at the early days of the Space Race you saw everything just kind of tried and you know everything thrown at the wall and uh I think we're just kind of back in that era now where you know things are being tried like this again we're seeing a lot of new innovation a lot of new ideas a lot of uh shrinking of some things and in beginning in other things obviously we have kind of the whole end of the spectrum here with between the electron rocket being really really small uh and compared to uh you know Starship which is being worked on and that's the largest rocket to ever fly so right now in the you know throughout the world there are Rockets of all different shapes and sizes stage one doing so I heard something about oh successful Splashdown with stage one I think they just said which would be cool I don't know if we'll get more of an update on that so I'll keep it I'll keep it loud here just in case foreign let's see all right well let's keep going here thank you so much to Rhino for the oh those of you just joining us there we have had stage one Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean and you can see it on your screen just there where with the crew aboard the recovery vessel who will now be making their way to the Splashdown location to collect their booster as operations continue as normal we will take a break again and when we come back we will share when the payloads are deployed we'll be back with you at around t plus 46 minutes cool I'll just keep this up on screen because that's maybe we'll actually see them get out there and see the see the booster that shot's cool so that's the Cradle basically that'll help pick up the the booster I'm actually a little curious how that'll be exactly work like is there a thing that slides underneath it or a strap that they maybe it's just a strap that goes I don't know I'll be excited to see that though I hope that they are able to stream as much of that as they possibly can let me know if music's too loud I can't really tell [Music] um all right let's keep going here sorry again I'm trying to just catch up these are all from behind and I'll get to the the non-super chats I'm just trying to kind of catch up on those as quickly as I can so um thank you so much to Jonathan for poutine flyer I'm not sure what that means but thank you to I guess both of you uh John deppert with 19 months of membership thank you John uh it's been a while since I've been able to watch a live stream from you got lucky today uh Victorian says hi Tim well thank you so much John good to hear from you and thank you so much for your 19 months of membership and 48th month months of membership from from uh Rogue flotilla uh finally caught Elijah we've been so busy with college classes thanks for all the video and coverage of you well thank you so much for four years of membership I didn't even know that how long are has YouTube I didn't even think they had memberships that long four years that's incredible thank you so much that deserves everyone in chat if you can just say thank you thank you um let's see this uh Matthew Grundy asking does Rocket lab plan to reuse the entire booster or parts booster or parts from the booster they were testing a reusable engine not too long ago that's correct so I think they're just seeing what is viable so they're just doing this kind of Step by Step they made some tweaks to the booster now they're recovering it they're gonna see how does this look if things look good you know I I would suspect they'll probably remove an engine test fire the engine make sure that it looks good maybe they'll remove all nine engines test all nine engines see if they look good and you know fill the the tanks make sure everything you know looks like it's going to hold pressure and stuff and then if things look good they'll hopefully you know do a static fire test and if that all looks good and if they have no reason to to fear that anything has been damaged and is is inoperable then I they might go for it who knows we don't know exactly what their plans are for this particular booster so but that is their goal is to literally be able to Splash it down pick it up kind of clean it out Purge it fill it back up and fly it and we will see they are yeah they are trying to re-fly an engine because they have talked about you know uh that they've retested it uh they are planning to re-fly that engine so um all just part of their you know testing campaign to make sure everything you know they cross all their T's and Dot other eyes before they get into flying any customer payloads so yeah um this is a good question Blake how much refurbishment would you expect versus Falcon 9 I mean I would expect that for now with the unknowns of salt water they're going to be very careful in inspections and just making sure that everything's totally good to go um you know obviously with the Falcon 9 you had there's a lot of worry about uh stresses of the of the fuselage you know as it landed that was kind of one of the big things like hey this thing just kind of lands is is everything okay uh from a structural standpoint and and again how are the engines we've never really looked at besides the space shuttle engines um the the ssmes the rs25s there really weren't opportunities to look at like the turbo pumps and look at all the the bearings and seals and stuff of an orbital class rocket after it came back from space so um you know when they're first recovering the Falcon 9 there's just a lot of unknowns and now I think they're getting to the point where um I can't tell if the boats but it does kind of look like the boat might be turning that it's just a lot of weird compression artifacts making it look that way but um you know there's going to be I'm guessing it at least at first there'll be a lot more testing than there is currently with Falcon 9 because Falcon 9 nowadays is down to you know very very little uh refurbishment and pretty quick turnarounds I'm guessing this will be quite the process at first to feel uh to feel good and confident about the sort of you know and develop a certification program to be able to refly the booster after it's you know splashed down so um Johnny uh sorry uh so late that you probably saw they do have video on board and they try to stream it as much as it can they've had really good luck sometimes streaming um on board for a decent amount of the time um and sometimes they do also release it afterwards because a lot of times you know they'll record it locally as well so we will see um this is what's kind of fun about the the electron they actually don't even do a re-entry burner or an entry burn uh they literally just let the the booster fall back in and hit the atmosphere and they built it in a way that it's it can handle the heat load uh it has probably a bit more well here's the good thing about it being carbon composite is that it's it's lighter weight at least a fuselage I mean fuselage is lighter weight um you know compared to and likely less overall dense uh at least per surface area than the Falcon 9 maybe um you also have those heavy batteries though too but you also don't have the extra propellant so it's kind of like a they found a way to be able to recover the booster and have it come back intact without having to do a re-enter burn actually the um you know the super heavy booster is planning to do the same thing the super heavy booster is playing to not have to do an entry burn just kind of you know take the take the heat load right on the the base of the vehicle and just re-enter just gritting your teeth and that's that's what electron's been doing with with good success so far um let's see here let's keep going on a few more questions um this is from Golan Heights I have a good question is the technique permanent permanently changed to water landing or will they iterate to air capture and then land-based Landing so no land-based Landing there is no um the you know there's no repulsive one the the electron has the ability to run more or less completely dry um with very little residual propellant and that's something that you normally don't want to do with a turbo pump powered rocket because if it starts to starve uh you know especially the turbo pump and stuff you can actually uh have explosions happen in detonations uh as your mixture ratio can get off in in the main combustion chamber um if you start to have little you know gas bubbles and stuff Electro on the other hand is the the turbo the pumps are actually spun via an electric engine or sorry an electric motor uh so you know if worst case scenario if you start you know you still could have a bad mixture ratio potentially in the main combustion chamber but the pumps don't rely on a mixture ratio and worst case scenario you can pretty much run the tanks more or less dry an electron or closer to it and so uh there is no residual propellant at all left over in the booster they run the booster all the way to depletion range I guess that's it um so yeah they they they do not have plans and the capability there's just no margins left over in the small sat launcher um to be able to do a boost back burn or propulsive Landing or anything like that and they've also pretty much made it quite clear that they've given up on Air recovery um which to me as soon as they got a recovery and then we're going to be putting it back on a ship to me that just sounded really expensive to have to have both your Marine asset and your air asset at least when they were planning to maybe air recover it and try to bring it all the way back to land that at least kind of made sense to me because then you're not having to have the the Marine asset and Peter Beck told me in an interview that he hates the Marine assets because they're very expensive but um at least if you know it's better to only have to use one of those two assets versus um both of them right so um yeah I think that's kind of where they're at uh again uh gav thank you so much um we don't know for sure what the the fate of this booster is rocket lab will have to uh inspect it make sure everything looks good uh and and then they'll go from there before we know anything else honestly um yeah I did catch us right at like T-minus 10 seconds thank you forge gamer for reminding me uh which is the Splashy end actually this is a legitimate question so they do Orient the booster to land engines first so uh because of the power pack of the rocket lab electron sorry this is a falcon 9 for those of you that obviously have been around uh probably know this is a falcon 9 pretend it's black or silver actually I mean I have an electron over there but it doesn't like come apart and I don't want to remove it from the stand but it does also have nine engines but the difference with the power pack of the of the electron is there's a bat a lot of batteries Lithium-ion batteries heavy batteries and then uh just you know electric pump fed uh rocket engines and so they're trying to just keep it the Flaming end down basically but there's no flames coming out but the good thing is all of this area is already pretty darn heat tolerant obviously the engines have to be uh resistant you know they're mostly in Canal they can handle I believe they're an engine alloy of some kind they can handle very high heat loads uh and they can handle that re-entry stress but also even the base of the rocket you know around uh all the engines there's kind of that flooring and they've had to beef that up to be able to uh you know make it so it can survive re-entry um that that's normally a spot that actually does again experience a decent amount of heat because it does uh you know the engines when they're running there's heat being developed down there and so it already had to have some shielding they just kind of beefed it up even more to be able to handle the re-entry forces but it is important that it maintains orientation falling you know engines first which is why uh they do have you know those the little gas thrusters um on on electron to keep it oriented uh through re-entry to make sure those engines stay pointed engine first so yeah uh uh let's see any advantages coming from Southern Hemisphere launching no they're um I mean well I I the only real Advantage I can think of as far as the physics go no there's uh the closer you are to the Equator the more potential you have to take Earth's rotation uh to your advantage but when you're doing a sun synchronous orbit or a you know uh polar orbit or something like that it doesn't none of that stuff really matters as much actually is there in that case is there actually an advantage launching further away from the equator I actually don't know anyway um to go back to that question uh the one good thing is there's less air traffic so you know New Zealand obviously is not a very heavily populated area there's not a ton of air traffic flowing uh through that airspace so they have a lot less concerns with range control same with even boats and everything compared to say Florida you know Florida think about how much air traffic there is coming in and out of of there between you know especially even like Atlanta Orlando you know some of these major international airports are all kind of within the path of some of these places you know actually we have that map pulled up so you know flying from you know through the uh the Caribbean islands uh you're gonna fly right up that Coast half the time or or from Europe going you know to Orlando you're going to be flying right through that path there's a lot of planes there's a lot of air traffic New Zealand just does not have anywhere like it's a hundredth or a thousand the amount of uh air traffic or something like that so it's just a lot less uh considerations on launch day and that's always a good thing that's probably the only real practical advantage to launching in the southern hemisphere uh this is from JM Studios uh saltwater exposure isn't the demon people say it is bad on electronics but structures not so much NASA did H1 salt water immersion studies really refurb was 120th the cost of new that's too bad they never ended up doing that on the Saturn 1B um that would have been really cool really cool yeah it's there are certain things if left unattended where saltwater can be terrible to it you know just immediately rusting certain things out but if you use the right parts if you use you know marine grade things and especially if you you know wash them off and and keep them flushed and or keep compartments sealed that that should not be exposed to salt water yeah I mean it's it's a thing you can uh do you know it's a thing you can design around let's see here uh this is from Merrick do I think electron and a new and neutron will be the future of cheap satellite launches to orbit I mean I think right now electron is filling a niche of things like this you know doing some demonstrations putting up a couple you know smaller cubesats small sets that need that dedicated ride need um to be able to get on the Manifest quickly relatively quickly and and get to their exact desired orbit I think a lot of small set launchers are trying to hang their hat on that exact thing being like hey we can get you anywhere at any time um and so far electron is by far and away uh the best one at doing that because they're the only ones flying regularly still I mean they started flying uh in 2017 and when they first launched I was like oh God they better I hope they get at this because there's a ton of competition right around the corner and yet today there's and now the only one standing honestly that are flying regularly the version orbit was kind of the only other one that was actually flying flying semi-regularly and uh they went bankrupt and actually rocket lab uh ended up acquiring a lot of their assets so and and hopefully a lot of those assets do make uh help make Neutron uh cheaper and quicker build it cheaper and quicker we're building a rocket especially a large rocket is never actually any rocket is never cheap and easy and it's never on time so anything to help aid in that process of being potentially cheaper easier more on time scheduled to enable something something about scheduling something a heater to enable um but yeah so I I expect big things out of neutron even though it's not a huge rocket it's frankly uh you know it's about half the amount of performance out of it that you can get from a falcon actually if they if they fully expended it it seems like it'll be on par with you know uh Falcon 9 in uh in in reusable mode with drone ship Landing um but yeah I I expect it I don't know I I rocket lab is one of the few companies and this is hard to say because I'm a huge fan of all these ideas and all these startups and I make personal connections to people I I just love the vision I love the drive I love the hard work and the the work ethic of all these companies but so far rocket lab is one of the only ones that has really proven to fulfill and and do these iterations and do great things I mean they're oh the the boat has stopped which has got to be a good sign right the boat has stopped I'm gonna put that full screen um yeah rocket Labs one of the only ones that's really fulfilling uh a lot of things that and constantly making improvements you know they have uh so much spacecraft engineering not just Rockets which I think is is great um you know you can use that as a satellite bus now um yeah I don't know I just I hope that Neutron works out great because I've I think it kind of needs to at this point I don't think you can survive long term with just launching the electron I don't think a lot of these small stat launchers are going to survive long term as just small sat launchers I think you do have to step up into reusable Rockets um with medium launch Lift capabilities let's see um would a tail first flash jump damage the engine the nozzles nope those nozzles are pretty darn beefy uh they obviously design if you think about it every I'll say square inch just because America uh but it sounds easier to me than saying square millimeter but every square inch of that nozzle already handles a a ridiculous amount of pressure obviously that pressure gradient drops the further down to the nozz you are but the nozzles are actually pretty thick pretty sturdy and they already handle thrust of the you know they already are capable of picking up that entire booster basically um and pushing you know more or less those nozzles in the combustion chamber is not only taking the whole weight and mass of the booster as it's accelerating but it's also taking you know times 1.523 G's of force uh through the well actually it's the same amount of force no matter what but anyway the point is is taking all of that Force already uh and then as it hits the water it's you know experiencing hopefully a lot less of that because it's going slowly because of the parachute so yeah it must be getting really close what does the Q stand for in Max Q it's pressure it's um Q is a uh the short whatever you want to say that the shorthand for for pressure so uh maximum aerodynamic pressure maximum pressure because obviously if you're ascending uh that's maybe something I don't know if I should bring it up in this video that we're working on it's kind of in the same Realm but yeah Max you basically you know if you think about it if you're say you're at sea level and you're speeding up in a car or a motorcycle or something and as you speed up you obviously feel the feel the air pressure getting greater and greater uh obviously in a rocket as you're speeding up the air pressure is going to get greater and greater but you're also ascending so you're getting into thinner and thinner atmosphere so obviously at some point there's a crossover where you're going faster and faster but the atmosphere is Getting Thinner and thinner So eventually it actually gets to the point where the atmosphere is thinner and it's actually reducing the pressure on the rocket and obviously at some point you're flying in space and there's virtually no atmosphere at all like uh we we measured it for this video at 100 kilometers you're at 0.00007 of atmosphere uh so yeah I mean basically zero obviously with a you know a lot of extra zeros you do have some Trace Amounts of atmosphere but it's virtually zero atmosphere um the higher you get the thinner that gets to by the way so by medium or thermometers quite literally zero basically um anyway um what were we saying yeah Max Cube so as you're sending the atmosphere gets thinner the pressure on the vehicle gets gets lower too even though it's speeding up um um let's see from from um Mongoose 1616 good job getting uh getting your music on this feed you come so far keep it up thank you so much um yeah oh yeah there's the booster floating nicely you'll notice that the inner stage the red part is slightly tilted up out of the water again because that's the lightest weight maybe we'll hear from them uh that's the lightest weight and the the engines and the batteries down here the the thrust structure or the or the thrust component what do they call it again I already power pack uh is one way to call it uh is going to be heavier so you can tell it's just kind of floating in there a little bit uh bottom heavy because it's a little bit bottom heavy and again they've hopefully designed it to be able to handle that look it's relatively calm water hopefully this recovery is nice and easy for them looks like they're already turning around on it so we'll lose it out of the camera angle here shortly but then next time we see it I'll bet we see it kind of coming up from the bottom here lining up with the with the carriage there and I hope we get to see how that Carriage actually works so that's gonna be really cool uh from Edmund uh keep keep YouTube great so folks like Tim can keep educating us thank you so much Edmund yeah I uh I still love YouTube I know I actually complained about it a little bit earlier today on Twitter about how shorts are just absurd uh you know we have a video with 1.7 million views on shorts and it has it's made 58 and it's the views are going up the money is staying the same so they're actually making less and less and less money which is weird uh and it's you know obviously it's not always about money but at the same time if you want to be able to create content for a living and you know have a team around you of people uh it does require resources and uh whoa there's something I feel like something's pushing the air they must have a drone or something or is there a helicopter do you see the waves look like they're getting pushed out right there maybe that's just a artifact of the fisheye lens or something maybe that's just waves yeah that might just be waves for somebody that looked to me almost like there's um you know rotor wash or something from a helicopter but I think it's just uh me being silly uh the space peacock what was that awesome song yeah again uh if you're hearing any music in the background that is original music uh let's see here this is from bait if you spiral the injectors in a bell rocket engine and imitate an arc rocket engine would it work or cause a lot of cavitation I actually am not even familiar with what an arc rocket engine is um Discord am I missing something what's what's a an arc rocket engine I don't know just look it up because we're talking about arcjet Arc jet thruster logically powered spacecraft typically hydrazine or ammonia hmm interesting yeah it's um yeah I'm not actually familiar I'd have to read up on I don't even know enough I literally don't even know what this is so I'm not gonna answer and act like I know anything about it so um I have no idea and I'm sorry to disappoint you uh let's see here but but thank you for the the question and the Super Chat uh Jacob free why do rockets Throttle Down for Max Q well um there's a few reasons number one it helps reduce the structural load on the rocket so you can have a trade-off it might be you know at the end of the day it might be easier to make a rocket you know hit a certain Target of of mass and weight um and keep it at a certain you know you'll say hey here's how much structural load we can take on this rocket we have to keep it under that so we actually know on Ascent we have to just keep it at this point it'll actually Throttle Down to keep it there and it might actually be higher performing to do that uh and to be able to get through that that thickest part of the atmosphere um but it's also again kind of for that same reason if you're just punching through the atmosphere you might end up fighting more and more and more drag and there's a chance that most of the time it's actually more efficient to Throttle Down at the point where the drag is the greatest just so you're not wasting a bunch of repellent just simply fighting drag you know what I mean just pushing against the drag if if it's not really getting you anywhere you know what I mean if you're not continually accelerating so um say you're putting in twice as much thrust are you accelerating twice as fast no like it maximum aerodynamic pressure increasing thrust twice as much might only give you like a tiny tiny bit of extra thrust in the grand scheme of things kind of like a you know a airplane if you've ever seen like a uh you know there's a drag and then there's thrust and those two things you know as you're cruising are equal whatever yeah kind of like that uh what did I think of the steel plate test today that was cool I look like I my understanding is it might have just been like a purge I don't think that was still the full we haven't seen the full beans on it yet but um yeah that's cool I'm excited to see how that works my my big concern though I don't I'm sure they've thought about this and I'm sure there's a way to I'm worried like all the sand that's around there there's everything gets covered in sand out there everything it's everywhere it's literally everywhere how are they gonna keep that from just totally falling down into the shower head and like just building up sand all over the place are they gonna have a cover over it when it's just sitting there um I would kind of assume so wouldn't you oh sorry uh Juan and Discord reminds me of something very important the Q and Max Q is actually Dynamic pressure because p is already pressured so pressure total so Dynamic pressure is Q good call boom thank you Juan let's see here uh so this um dicey Dino I know that rocket was launched from New Zealand and not Virginia but why does Rocket lab launch from Virginia instead of Florida is it because of the size of the launch pad so I'm guessing stuff like this comes down to the cost of uh you know everything and I'm guessing that Virginia and Wallops was more eager to lease out a launch pad give maybe better tax incentives give a better deal on land and operations over operating from Florida because Florida's actually getting to the point of being like relatively it's a busy Spaceport these days so you'd have more traffic again you have well I don't know about more air traffic but you just have more launch opportunities to interfere with with launching so Virginia you kind of get more of the run of the show um as opposed to Florida so I'm guessing between potential costs overall and plus the availability of the launch sites I'm just kind of guessing um just kind of guessing that's why but I don't know for sure um yeah so uh from XX uh Amion abiana EXO I don't know um but yeah it says uh after four months of membership thank you so much can we get a sneak peek of what one one 100 scale model is next yeah so we are actually working on so Falcon 9 obviously very prolific rocket launch uh launcher today first one to fly humans since the space shuttle but I decided that the next one we're gonna do um this might be not something that everyone thinks they want but I think it's really cool uh we're actually going back to the beginning of American space flight history so we're actually going to compare uh we're gonna it's gonna be a two pack for this which would be uh dual both of the Mercury launchers so Mercury Redstone and Mercury at which are honestly still some of the most iconic Rockets but what I'm excited about is I really want to be able to see those at the same scale to you know the Falcon night like literally the upper stage of the Falcon 9 with the Dragon capsule I think is going to be bigger than the entire Mercury Redstone Rocket um so it's gonna be really fun to see them welcome back to the webcast of Rocket Labs 39th electron launch we are now t plus 44 minutes into the baby come back Mission with the first of two payload deployment sequences coming up shortly before that though let's recap on the mission so far Baby Come Back launched at the top of the window lifting off the pad at Rocket lab launch complex one at 127 New Zealand time or 0127 UTC electron had a clean pass through Max Q main engine cut off first and second stage separation and then second engine cut off followed by final stage separation from the kickstage carrying today's satellites while that happened the first stage began it's descent back down to earth under a parachute and has since successfully splashed down in the ocean and while they were on our break you would have seen that recovery vessel approaching the Splashdown booster the kickstage is now coming up on payload deployment shortly first the Curie engine will ignite to position the kick stage in a circular orbit ahead of its Mark then the NASA Starling satellites will deploy one at a time followed by the Spire satellites the QE engine will then ignite again making an inclination shift ahead of the deployment of Leo 3 for SFL and teleser that second deployment sequence will be taking place in about an hour or so and we'll update you as it happens Meanwhile we're listening out to Mission Control for confirmation of that first of four Curie engine Burns cool uh yes the Falcon recognition confirmed [Music] uh yes the Falcon 9 as it re-enters will have a lot of plasma and actually especially like fast and that commission control reporting a successful Curie engine ignition this burn will last for around 120 seconds before shutting off shortly followed by the start of our payload deployment sequence so yeah the um what was I saying yeah watch any of the especially at night you see it like crazy um but even the fairings create a lot of plasma and re-entry SpaceX released some videos from the fairings where you see plasma uh and they're going uh I mean they're actually going a little bit faster than the booster just a little bit um but the booster is a lot more dense it has a lot smaller surface to area ratio um or weight to Mass to surface ratio there we go and uh so sometimes especially on like geostationary orbit missions or ones where they're pushing the booster a lot further it makes a crazy amount of plasma and you just really can see it especially at night on some of the the lower energy missions you know if they're doing a return to launch site I'm sure there's some plasma build up I don't know if it's as prominent on those ones but the velocities are a lot a lot lower um I don't even know what that um let's see here thank you so much to all these people with the great questions um and Wayne Fox I appreciate it oh the the rocket engine you were asking about in your last question the arc engine is an aerospike now that I didn't know sorry about that bait 215. um you know I I so the injectors typically injectors shouldn't put you know even swirl injectors was that the question about swirl injectors um let me see here this if you spiral the injectors in a bell rocket engine and imitate an arc rocket engine would it work or cause a lot of cavities confirmed Effigy is 576 kilometers per G is 574 kilometers and inclination is 99.45 degrees fantastic news there from Mission Control Kyrie has shut down at the expected altitude we have about 25 to 30 seconds now until that first deployment for NASA cool that's great news uh bait again sorry I don't quite understand pilot deployment confirmed for NASA stuff so again obviously we're just seeing animations of these but uh yeah that's the second one deploying successfully um great to hear um this is from uh zimmery says what do you do live streaming again for Firefly uh it has absolutely nothing to do with firefly absolutely would in a heartbeat for for Firefly again as far as a customer starting three has just been deployed they said um but I just can't handle honestly it was just way too much work and it turned us into a production company uh like a live stream production company uh and it took away from all the other things that I wanted to do last summer uh for making videos you'll notice obviously there's a big lull in videos in the channel during last Summer's uh streak of trying to do major launches and obviously Firefly was one of them and so was Artemis and I'm just trying to kind of calm down on that stuff so you just work on what I enjoy and that was just too much stress and um yeah it's just I mean it was just didn't always work as I'm just such a perfectionist that when things aren't perfect and live streaming is rarely perfect uh it's just too easy to be disappointed so um oh there we go another that's I think I'll try to keep this a little bit louder confirmed for Spire one fantastic news there from Mission Control payload deployment confirmed for Spire one we have the last three YouTube set for Spire coming up shortly and then we'll have another Coast phase briefly followed by the SFL deployment about t plus one hour 45. cool but anyway um yeah I'm really trying to cut down on on the traveling live stream stuff because it's just okay aspire to just payload confirmed so we're good to go there um and just focus more on the videos there's a ton of videos that we're working on and a ton of things that I'm trying to get done uh this year uh just as things start to ramp up and get crazy you know we're gonna get it's gonna get really really crazy with Starship launches I'm sure at some point just trying to make it so it's sustainable and fun and uh that I I'm getting the work done that I want to be getting done uh the video that we're like I said the video we're working on right now um there's another like 50 minutes until the next payload so this will be my sign off then I'm not gonna wait the last for the last payload deployment sorry um but yeah the moral of the story is that uh I'm really excited about the video we're working on it has a ton of animations and I love like the animations are so fun to make and I think they're so valuable to have good visuals to some of the physics and some of the things that we talk about in these videos um so I I'm really excited about the videos that I'm working on right now the long list of them there's some uh ones that I think you guys are gonna really really really like that are a little extra special and uh yeah and and all those live streams traveling and stuff just takes up so much more time than what it seems even to the point you know of let's say I travel and have to go somewhere for a week uh you know like with firefly or Artemis or something just the exhaustion you know sometimes we'll be running on almost no sleep by the time I get home like I'm just wiped out for like two days and have zero energy to you know and desire to could keep working so it's always more than the sum and oftentimes like leading up to that it's like oh we're doing a ton of work to prepare for this and that's taking away from the things that I want to be doing so um I'm just trying to be better about saying no uh even though some of the opportunities are really fun I mean Firefly it was really fun actually it was really it was really cool to be able to be there and get on base and see all the cool stuff and talk to so many awesome people meet amazing people then to see the first successful launch was awesome uh I I definitely don't regret it but it's just so much extra work behind the scenes uh and it just like I said just took away from everything else so um I don't wanna yeah maybe I'll start a separate company that I don't have anything to do with or something that just takes the van and drives it across the country and does live streams and I don't I don't have to worry about it or something I don't know but um yeah that's kind of that other than that uh let's see this is oh um this is from David rile great question when the satellites are released sideways how does that affect the orbit so so the the the rocket you know the payloads at this point are traveling at roughly seven kilometers per second so uh you know roughly 17 000 miles an hour 28 000 kilometers an hour very very very fast right and those are being ejected at 10 meters per second so you know 20 mile an hour 20 you know 30 kilometers per second or 30 kilometers an hour like of teeny teeny itty bitty tiny fraction um of the Velocity compared to how fast they're going in in One Direction so uh that has a very absolute minimal amount of uh of change and velocity um that could easily be compensated by most satellites you know if it really mattered uh and most of the time that's well within the margins of what's a normal uh you know for the orbit and sometimes the little satellites will do small adjustments anyway just to if it's that important to be at an exact spot especially geostationary orbit you know you really need to be staying within a certain spot and um so it is it does need to be precise but a little tiny push like that is is absolutely uh nothing in the grand scheme of thing so um yeah well um think uh I think that's gonna do it for me so hopefully again I hope that you guys uh enjoyed today's launch and congratulations so far again don't want to cut it out too early but I'm not going to stick around for the extra hour here basically to see the last payload deploy uh but thank you to all of you guys um who stuck around and it's been awesome and uh yeah you guys are fantastic again I'm working I'm gonna go right back to work now to try to finish up we're working on this video uh about orbit versus space and just getting trying to get that out here before Thursday because I'm going to be gone uh for a decent amount of time here and would love to get it done before then um would love to get it out before then so pushing really hard to get that video done so wish us luck it's pretty it's relatively long not long in the terms of thing normal things but it has a ton of animations but they're gonna be great so I hope you guys enjoy that so that being said thank you all for watching I really appreciate it uh it was fun doing another live stream again congratulations to Rocket lab I can't wait to see images of the recovery of the booster can't wait to hear how it uh came back and congratulations to NASA spire and um and SFL or whatever their initials were I already forgot the initials of them I should probably look just so I'm not signing off to nothing of the right thing um it was SFL yes space flight laboratory that's right uh so congratulations to all of you guys uh on a Flawless looking Mission and I can't wait to hear how the rest of it goes so uh thank you all so much for tuning in hanging out with me tonight it really means a lot so uh hopefully we'll see you guys again in the near future but for now that's gonna do it for me I'm Tim Dodd the everyday astronaut bringing space down to earth for everyday people goodbye everybody [Music] thank 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Length: 87min 54sec (5274 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 18 2023