First and second stage separation of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle during the Return to Sender mission on November 20th, 2020.
Comments:
Farras Ariq
Cool footage… we need more like this
Morpheus
Damn that was cool!
sparrow_34
O for awesome. Cool seeing a bit of yaw from below
Amon San
genuine question: how come there is sound when this happens in space?
Tran
Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!
T.Jentzsch
Ok, that was sick!
João Fyllipy Lima
Holly bread that was awesome!
Footlion
Just AMAZING!
mike osted
is the sound added in post or was it actually captured?
Saqib Sultan Temuri
It’s Safe to say : the Future is now!
Kenji Del Rosario
POV: You are a crispy burnt go pro camera
Wayne Schenk
That’s amazing.
Dave Lewthwaite
That’s bloody amazing.
TreCoolable
If you notice, every nice and shiny metal and carbon fibre surface gets dark and sooty after second stage engine light.
The writing in sharpie apparently doesn’t let the soot stick as you can still see the writing against the soot background.
All this in a matter of milliseconds. I wonder if it could cook the Thanksgiving turkey in that time?
Josemaria Lizana Q.
It was all clean and shiny and them boom, all sooty
Jan Nelle
A shot that I did not know I needed to see WOW 😍
cwjarvis3
Absolutely Fantastic video guys! Thank you very much! That is Awesome.
Peter Jerde
SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Please post more! ◡̈
Bard
From chrome to sooty in 0.01 seconds
Denis Alves
That’s just incredible.
Jack Beyer
Insanely great.
TheDying Titan
is it jusst me or did the rocket kick a little to the left on engine ignition before straightening out
Ben Stokes
Rocket Lab, Let’s Keep Moving.
John Ehret
You guys are doing the audio the right way. Love it
other account
0:08 you know you love to hear it
_click_
Ar Wic
Wow, this is insane! Joss!!
skyprop
Whoomp!!………..Thwaaaaaammmmmm…… Keep up the Great work and more vids like this please |Rocket Lab:)
tikki volta
holy smokes, what was that recorded with? red? blackmagic? some custom camera? i neeed to know!!
Adam Harris
That was epic!!! What a shot! That is probably the second coolest rocket video I’ve seen, number one is rocket man in a Tesla of course, sorry, that one is hard to top, but this shot is a close second! Great job the booster recovery too.
Pete Heel
That vacuum suck just before separation!!!!! What awesome footage!!!
Chantz Tribe
Holy hell that’s an amazing shot
JayVal90
Wow that was some awesome sound and high quality video.
Mr Man
That ignition was spectacular. Damn
Marthinneill Apoi
POV:you are electron’s interstage
Thomas Chow
wonder what the energy was to excite the electron to a higher stage
Trevor Baines
So you hear the next stage pull away because sound travels through the plume and the mic is in the plume, right? Is it built into the camera or did you use a separate mic, if so what mic? Just having any sound at all makes the awesome images more awesome!
Erik Gustafson
okay that was …. that was… holy jesus on toast that was amazing!!!!
Francis Stapp
things we think about but never get to see thank you
Timflan
In space, no one can hear you… Oh wait nevermind.
John Hero Salvador
I want to test if you can roast a chicken when that second stage engine ignites. Nice vid!
Lawrence Chiu
In the vacuum of space, nobody can hear you scream, but you can hear the 2nd stage engine of an Electron blasting you in the face 🤪
Icy Purple
some of the best stage sep footage ever recorded
jamie conman
That was one nugget of awesomeness I desperately needed. Thank you 👍
Rangifulla
Pics, so we know it happened.
+ some mean audio.
Techandtrains101
Rocket Lab are just showing off at this point
George Cooke
Epic. Straight up epic.
Thank you.
Aubrey Freeman
This is beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
Andrew Ferree
Alright, I want to know who the people are that downvoted this and I want to know what happened to them as a child. Because I don’t see how anyone could not love this.
Zac Peter
imagine watching starship staging!!!
DJ Blastoise
thats awesome footage, thanks so much for this
moth
Looks awful lot like cropped footage from 360 camera
OK, just imagine watching this in VR
Christian Rickert
That quite moment before the ignition … wow!
Tino Beier
What the… damn, I love this camera position And high resolution is awesome!
skyprop
I just noticed the Spring pistons for separation so Cool!!
Cscuile
Thank you for the footage! You guys IMO are even better than SpaceX when it comes to it!
mycroft16
Are the actuators pneumatic or just spring loaded? Such a cool angle.
belfonzus
Holy Headphones Batman! I was not prepared for that.
rockets9488
WOW, awesome sep footage to go with a fantastic flight. Good job Rocket Lab!
Galaxy9synthesis
Woah! My ears are bleeding after turning the volume up on that up a bit too loud! Awesome footage!
Obama Llama
Wooo that’s sick! We need more footy!
Aaron Collier
This might be the coolest bit of rocket footage I’ve ever seen.
Andrew Skow
Quick! Someone show this to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson so he can complain about being able to hear an engine in space.
Brixxter
I really want to see the rest of this camera’s footage, I’m so curious what the ballute deployment looks like
Ace King
Those pumps are so fast at spinning up and firing wow, that camera view is amazing😍
rebornranch
Also when can we expect a return to sender mission patch?
Nicollas Alexandre
When someone says you can’t hear rocket engines in space, show them this video 🚀
Paul Feist
Damn… that’s one of the best pieces of rocket porn footage I’ve seen! More please!
Stephen Reiter
Instant SOOT on the inside of that clean first stage! Such a cool shot!!
Air Command Rockets
How Amazing is that! … I wonder how they got that footage back? …. Oh yeah … parachutes Interesting how there is just enough exhaust gas hitting the microphone to make sound.
Robert Wallhead
Incredible! I want this to be my morning alarm sound.
Josh
The inside reminds me of a washing machine
Pronto
Yeah, the resolution on that almost made up for the “Return to Sender” video blue balls…
Colin Quirk
THIS IS SO GOOD YES MY NERD BRAIN DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT CRAVED THIS
Itz_ Ultima
I wish they had a manufacturing facility in Virginia near their launch pad like they do in New Zealand, I wanna work there soooo baad
Bassboylowg
Sounds like the Greybeards summoning the Dragonborn.
Awesome.
Sikaheimo
Wow! This is some amazing footage! Got goosebumps the moment the 2nd stage lit!
Pascal Calixte
That was epic. Never seen anything like that. Best stage separation ever easily.
Lyon E
This was flippin’ amazing footage – holy smokes! you guys’n’gals Rock
Ferrariman601
Woah – never expected to *hear* all of that!
Glenn Littleford
That rocket firing covered everything in the first stage with a carbon film. Shiny, boom, not so shiny.
Michael Mosseri
Was this footage recovered from the booster or was it streamed back down before it hit air?
SPACEWAYS COMP
the stage sep looks so much like a movie. the second stage seperates, its quiet for a few seconds and then boom
MatteoTN
I’m still speachless after 2 hours.
MATRIX 3D
That looks sweet. This will be a treat for space enthusiasts.
Paratrooper Chad
I have always wondered what it would be like to be at the business end of a rocket motor when it fired… THANKS! That is simply friggin awesome!
Jerry Mabie
I set the playback to .25. I watched 10 times in slow motion. We need more videos like this great job.
The Fubudub
I have watched this on repeat for like half an hour. It’s so cool!
Richard Laxton
Such a clean and beautiful inter-stage and then BOOM, covered in soot.
Budget RC
Outside of the obvious SpaceX, this is some of the coolest footage I’ve seen since apollo era 16mm stuff!
Hunter Kutz
I love how you can see the green springs pop out to separate the upper stage.
Alex Karout
Rest in Peace Gnome Chomsky
InventorZahran
Scott Manley will probably have something interesting to say about this…
DVasymmetry
This is the coolest video in several months from the space crowd… Keep up the great work! Go Electron! Can’t wait for the US launch to happen…
Tyler Smith
Holy crap, guys. High resolution, high frame rate, good lighting, a camera that pans up on time…….. AND SOUND!?!? You just ticked every box right out of the gate! Bravo!
Andrew Kauke
It’s really cool how you can still hear the rocket engine just from the exhaust gases
Paul Shirren
I clicked away from a live SpaceX launch to watch this.
Nik Mathews
Some of the most amazing rocketry footage I have ever seen. Unbelievable…
speeddemon1092
Quite a bit more noise than what I was expecting. Upper stage takes off like a bat out of hell once it lights, too.
Wes Chilton
OK, that was AWESOME
JeZh
You people really need to share more footage like this
Cool footage… we need more like this
Damn that was cool!
O for awesome. Cool seeing a bit of yaw from below
genuine question: how come there is sound when this happens in space?
Looks like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!
Ok, that was sick!
Holly bread that was awesome!
Just AMAZING!
is the sound added in post or was it actually captured?
It’s Safe to say : the Future is now!
POV: You are a crispy burnt go pro camera
That’s amazing.
That’s bloody amazing.
If you notice, every nice and shiny metal and carbon fibre surface gets dark and sooty after second stage engine light.
The writing in sharpie apparently doesn’t let the soot stick as you can still see the writing against the soot background.
All this in a matter of milliseconds. I wonder if it could cook the Thanksgiving turkey in that time?
It was all clean and shiny and them boom, all sooty
A shot that I did not know I needed to see WOW 😍
Absolutely Fantastic video guys! Thank you very much! That is Awesome.
SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Please post more! ◡̈
From chrome to sooty in 0.01 seconds
That’s just incredible.
Insanely great.
is it jusst me or did the rocket kick a little to the left on engine ignition before straightening out
Rocket Lab, Let’s Keep Moving.
You guys are doing the audio the right way. Love it
0:08 you know you love to hear it
_click_
Wow, this is insane! Joss!!
Whoomp!!………..Thwaaaaaammmmmm…… Keep up the Great work and more vids like this please |Rocket Lab:)
holy smokes, what was that recorded with? red? blackmagic? some custom camera? i neeed to know!!
That was epic!!! What a shot! That is probably the second coolest rocket video I’ve seen, number one is rocket man in a Tesla of course, sorry, that one is hard to top, but this shot is a close second! Great job the booster recovery too.
That vacuum suck just before separation!!!!! What awesome footage!!!
Holy hell that’s an amazing shot
Wow that was some awesome sound and high quality video.
That ignition was spectacular. Damn
POV:you are electron’s interstage
wonder what the energy was to excite the electron to a higher stage
So you hear the next stage pull away because sound travels through the plume and the mic is in the plume, right? Is it built into the camera or did you use a separate mic, if so what mic? Just having any sound at all makes the awesome images more awesome!
okay that was …. that was… holy jesus on toast that was amazing!!!!
things we think about but never get to see thank you
In space, no one can hear you… Oh wait nevermind.
I want to test if you can roast a chicken when that second stage engine ignites. Nice vid!
In the vacuum of space, nobody can hear you scream, but you can hear the 2nd stage engine of an Electron blasting you in the face 🤪
some of the best stage sep footage ever recorded
That was one nugget of awesomeness I desperately needed. Thank you 👍
Pics, so we know it happened.
+ some mean audio.
Rocket Lab are just showing off at this point
Epic. Straight up epic.
Thank you.
This is beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
Alright, I want to know who the people are that downvoted this and I want to know what happened to them as a child. Because I don’t see how anyone could not love this.
imagine watching starship staging!!!
thats awesome footage, thanks so much for this
Looks awful lot like cropped footage from 360 camera
OK, just imagine watching this in VR
That quite moment before the ignition … wow!
What the… damn, I love this camera position
And high resolution is awesome!
I just noticed the Spring pistons for separation so Cool!!
Thank you for the footage! You guys IMO are even better than SpaceX when it comes to it!
Are the actuators pneumatic or just spring loaded? Such a cool angle.
Holy Headphones Batman! I was not prepared for that.
WOW, awesome sep footage to go with a fantastic flight. Good job Rocket Lab!
Woah! My ears are bleeding after turning the volume up on that up a bit too loud! Awesome footage!
Wooo that’s sick! We need more footy!
This might be the coolest bit of rocket footage I’ve ever seen.
Quick! Someone show this to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson so he can complain about being able to hear an engine in space.
I really want to see the rest of this camera’s footage, I’m so curious what the ballute deployment looks like
Those pumps are so fast at spinning up and firing wow, that camera view is amazing😍
Also when can we expect a return to sender mission patch?
When someone says you can’t hear rocket engines in space, show them this video 🚀
Damn… that’s one of the best pieces of rocket porn footage I’ve seen! More please!
Instant SOOT on the inside of that clean first stage! Such a cool shot!!
How Amazing is that! … I wonder how they got that footage back? …. Oh yeah … parachutes
Interesting how there is just enough exhaust gas hitting the microphone to make sound.
Incredible! I want this to be my morning alarm sound.
The inside reminds me of a washing machine
Yeah, the resolution on that almost made up for the “Return to Sender” video blue balls…
THIS IS SO GOOD YES MY NERD BRAIN DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT CRAVED THIS
I wish they had a manufacturing facility in Virginia near their launch pad like they do in New Zealand, I wanna work there soooo baad
Sounds like the Greybeards summoning the Dragonborn.
Awesome.
Wow! This is some amazing footage! Got goosebumps the moment the 2nd stage lit!
That was epic. Never seen anything like that. Best stage separation ever easily.
This was flippin’ amazing footage – holy smokes! you guys’n’gals Rock
Woah – never expected to *hear* all of that!
That rocket firing covered everything in the first stage with a carbon film. Shiny, boom, not so shiny.
Was this footage recovered from the booster or was it streamed back down before it hit air?
the stage sep looks so much like a movie. the second stage seperates, its quiet for a few seconds and then boom
I’m still speachless after 2 hours.
That looks sweet. This will be a treat for space enthusiasts.
I have always wondered what it would be like to be at the business end of a rocket motor when it fired… THANKS! That is simply friggin awesome!
I set the playback to .25. I watched 10 times in slow motion. We need more videos like this great job.
I have watched this on repeat for like half an hour. It’s so cool!
Such a clean and beautiful inter-stage and then BOOM, covered in soot.
Outside of the obvious SpaceX, this is some of the coolest footage I’ve seen since apollo era 16mm stuff!
I love how you can see the green springs pop out to separate the upper stage.
Rest in Peace Gnome Chomsky
Scott Manley will probably have something interesting to say about this…
This is the coolest video in several months from the space crowd… Keep up the great work! Go Electron! Can’t wait for the US launch to happen…
Holy crap, guys. High resolution, high frame rate, good lighting, a camera that pans up on time…….. AND SOUND!?!? You just ticked every box right out of the gate! Bravo!
It’s really cool how you can still hear the rocket engine just from the exhaust gases
I clicked away from a live SpaceX launch to watch this.
Some of the most amazing rocketry footage I have ever seen. Unbelievable…
Quite a bit more noise than what I was expecting. Upper stage takes off like a bat out of hell once it lights, too.
OK, that was AWESOME
You people really need to share more footage like this