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Rocket Lab

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Peter Beck
4 years
Welcome back to Earth Electron!
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2 years
This is what it looked like from the front seats.
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3 years
We will have the recovery camera aboard the next flight. Keep posted for some more cool footage of Electron coming home.
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4 years
We’re building a big rocket.
@RocketLab
Rocket Lab
4 years
Introducing Neutron – our new 8-ton class reusable rocket tailored for mega constellations, deep space missions and human spaceflight. Learn more:
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5 years
Electron heavy is finished!
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3 years
Next stop, the moon.
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1 year
Fresh views (and sounds) back from our latest recovery mission
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3 years
Perfect launch tonight
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Peter Beck
2 years
Incredible catch by the recovery team, can’t begin to explain how hard that catch was and that the pilots got it. They did release it after hook up as they were not happy with the way it was flying, but no big deal, the rocket splashed down safely and the ship is loading it now.
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4 years
We lost the flight late into the mission. I am incredibly sorry that we failed to deliver our customers satellites today. Rest assured we will find the issue, correct it and be back on the pad soon.
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Peter Beck
4 years
Congratulations to the SpaceX team for an incredible test flight today!
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Elon Musk
4 years
Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!
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3 years
Silver lining
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4 years
Red is for reusable.
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3 years
Doing rocket drop and helicopter catch tests today. The team haven’t missed one yet…
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3 years
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4 years
Electron is back in the factory.
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3 years
And just like that, a new launch pad is born.
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3 years
What do you do with a rocket that has been returned to sender? Put in the foyer of course.
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4 years
Electron is on the pad.
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1 month
Full house.
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Peter Beck
4 years
6 satellites, 2 different orbits, 3 engine burns of the upper stage and a Photon. Congratulations team!
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Peter Beck
2 years
The HyperCurie engine powering our Photon spacecraft for #CAPSTONE . This engine will take us to the moon.
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Peter Beck
3 years
Everyone raise their glass to the best planet in the solar system. Happy Earth day.
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3 years
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4 years
The photon satellite that is going to take NASA to the moon next year is born. Our space systems division is really pushing out some nice spacecraft this year!
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4 years
The new HyperCurie engine for deep space and planetary missions on Photon. Banana for scale, apparently bananas are now recognized units of measure?
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2 years
They grow up so fast.
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3 years
1 rocket is rolling off every 20 days. Next one on the pad soon.
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2 years
In thrust we trust! 📸: @TheFavoritist
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4 years
This hat is significantly more delicious. A big thanks to one of the team who watched me gum through the real thing.
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2 years
Neutron 1st stage tank halves in progress. Love it when a plan comes together.
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3 years
How it started vs how it’s going
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4 years
Lovely lift off!
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2 years
Heat shield did its job nicely.
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2 years
Feels like something epic should be said but all as I can say is, perfect moon mission success.
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3 years
Pad B getting ready for its debut.
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Peter Beck
3 years
Payload deployed, 100% mission success.
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Peter Beck
3 years
This makes me happy! 2 Electrons sitting down at the launch site ready to fly. Satellite check outs and encapsulation are under way for a busy month.
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Peter Beck
4 years
Congratulations to the teams at @SpaceX and @NASA on a successful return to Earth! Welcome home @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug . A massive milestone for the Commercial Crew program.
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1 month
Look at that!!! Engines rolling off the production line just like they should.
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4 years
Return to Sender falling from space
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1 year
This is my new favorite launch footage. The team always has something new.
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Peter Beck
1 year
This reusable thing seems to work…. Going to fly 9 reused engines on an upcoming mission.
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2 years
Wet dress rehearsal completed for the upcoming launch. Next stop…..the Moon! I always wanted to say that.
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4 years
Flight 13 is already at the pad at LC-1! Payload integration is underway.
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4 years
All satellites deployed, perfect orbit!
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3 years
More rockets for the new pad.
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3 years
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2 years
Neutron tank dome beside an Electron tank dome with a Buzz Lightyear for scale…..
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4 years
My new favourite image of 2020.
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4 years
Splashdown!
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4 years
We are quickly making progress into the anomaly and the team is chasing it down with gusto. It has been incredibly humbling to see so much support and kind words. Thank you!
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3 years
Payload deployed, flawless launch and mission by the team!
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Peter Beck
2 years
Perfect Electron launch! Lunar photon is in Low Earth Orbit.
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3 years
Next stop for these Rocket Lab solar panels……the moon
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Peter Beck
3 years
Looking good in red on the pad today. This mission is not only another reusability attempt but it is reusing the propellant press system from the last reusable fight.
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Peter Beck
2 months
Archimedes has been breathing fire! Started at low power and now cranking it up.
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Peter Beck
4 years
A sneak peek at a hypercurie nozzle (left) vs. std Curie. Hypercurie is our latest spacecraft engine, it’s Electric pumped, on orbit storable, non toxic and It’s perfect to get payloads to the moon and..........Venus!
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4 years
How it started: How it’s going:
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Peter Beck
2 years
This is what it looks like when an Electron 1st stage re enters Earth from space (the wall) on its way to splash down. The engines are not running, it’s the heat shield just doing it’s job.
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1 year
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4 years
Perfect orbit, payload deployed. Hello 2021!
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Peter Beck
4 years
We just sent the magic command and transitioned the rocket kick stage into a Photon satellite. Rocket Lab’s very own Photon satellite number 2 is born!
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Peter Beck
2 years
What do you tell your young son who covertly tried to make a rocket engine out of a can in the garage? By all accounts the explosion was significant. I went with, “check your nozzle diameter”
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2 years
In mission control getting ready for the final burn tonight.
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Peter Beck
3 years
The engine inspection from the last recovered flight shows excellent results and happiness. We’ll light some up soon.
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Peter Beck
4 years
Spot the odd one out. S1 recovery booster.
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4 years
Payload deployed, perfect orbit!
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2 years
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Peter Beck
2 years
Electron is such an amazing vehicle and the team behind it are even more so. Capstone was the heaviest and hardest mission we have ever lifted by a long way but Electron completed the lift flawlessly even with performance to spare.
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3 years
Good to go for launch this weekend!
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4 years
Great production results by the team this month.
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3 years
Splash down of the stage confirmed. Helicopter has eyes on it.
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3 years
Payloads deployed another 100% mission success by the team.
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Peter Beck
2 years
Homeward bound, safe and sound.
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2 years
It’s cool seeing reusable rockets roll down the production line now as a standard product. It will be even better when they have some frequent flyer miles on them.
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1 year
The data is in, perfect performance from the reused engine and the stage.
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3 years
Hold on tight....These separation locks hold back the many tons of force from the drogue chute as it deploys on the next Electron reusability test.
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2 years
Before and after going to space and back. Not bad for 7500 kph.
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10 months
Perfect orbit!
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Peter Beck
4 years
Simply awesome!! Congratulations to the entire Space x team!
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SpaceX
4 years
Crew Dragon has separated from Falcon 9’s second stage and is on its way to the International Space Station with @Astro_Behnken and @AstroDoug ! Autonomous docking at the @Space_Station will occur at ~10:30 a.m. EDT tomorrow, May 31
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2 years
The final licensing paperwork for launch is complete and we are 100% go for launch tomorrow. Huge thanks to NASA Wallops and the FAA. Time to fly, this time from the northern hemisphere.
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2 years
Perfect transfer orbit.
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3 years
Red is reuse, the next reusable rocket is already coming down the production line.
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4 years
Perfect transfer orbit!
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I love a good stage separation!
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Number 15 looking good on the pad.
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4 years
Here is what Photon Lunar looks like! This platform can also deliver small payloads to Mars,Venus and other exciting places.
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3 months
Successful pre burner ignition and run. We will probably play for a week or so tuning propellant timings before we open the main valves for a full stage run. These engine cycles are very sensitive to start up transients and timings so correct characterisation of all the
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4 years
Electron stands poised on the pad tonight ready for fight tomorrow. Photo credit to Trenton Smith one of the LC-1 team.
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4 years
Here they all are!
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2 years
Lunar Photon is now over 1/2 million Km away from Earth just hanging out happy and healthy.
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4 years
The rocket backlog.
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3 years
Oh…that’s good! Congratulations, you have just named the very next recovery mission after this one.
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Emmett Reis
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@RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck It would have been cool if the mission was called "Catch Me If You Can" instead of "There and Back Again"
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4 years
If you can prove that there is life on Venus then it’s fair to assume that life is not unique but likely prolific throughout the universe. That’s my view anyway.
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4 years
Electron painting up the sky last week.
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Stage 1 is under parachute!!!
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Leaving the crust never looked so good.
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A Rocket Lab production line.
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