That final clip is a thing of beauty. Great to end on and to have it play with just the engine noise. I assume this is a middlefinger to a certain report/rumours/accusations. Well done in that case.
Congratulation to the Team. You guys did a fantastic job. I know there is still a lot of work to do but you should all take in the cheer since very few engineer in HISTORY manage to do what you did and probably none with your budget lol
That was a lovly test. Good dimonds on that so it will be perfect for higher in the atmosphere. Love what you guys are doing. Love rocket lab. I hope your testing goes well and I cant wait to see neutron lift off
What a thing of beauty. Does appear to be a little more engine-rich exhaust than would be ideal in a lot of the shots, but as a work in progress it's gorgeous.
Very exciting. Brave to post the early runs that were running a little engine rich, but I'm sure you'll get that sorted, and maybe already have. Getting an engine to start without instantly disassembling itself is an incredible achievement. Well done.
Yeah anybody who has followed Raptor development knows the attention people pay to these colors and the analyses even youtubers have done on them. But given the rest of the speed and if this really is a production configuration engine, they may also tune the engine to more ready also fast. Congratulations to Rocket Lab for cannonball speed in Neutron/Archimedes development!
Thanks to those short sellers, I was able to pick up thousands of long hold shares at $3.74/share. But those guys might want to run for the hills and stay there now.
Jealous of that action. So far, the only real time RocketLabs and Mr Beck have been wrong, is they didn't know they built a product tough enough to survive re-entry and be recoverable for reuse.
Lookin good! I AM seeing bits of green in there during hot-fire rather than at ignition. Which tells me likely melting some copper instead of T-TEB ignition but I'm sure you guys will get it dialed in!!👍
Note for the Video team - Global Shutter cameras will get rid of the diagonal lines through the flames. :) Framing, sound, exposure, all top notch, wish I was getting to do that for a company this side of the Tasman.
You can see part of the flame burning a green color throughout the burn. When a rocket engine burns with a green color flame it traditionally means that some of the metal alloys are being burned away. With metal being burned away that means the engine is not acting in a stable state. Thus this engine still has needs more developmentally work on it before it can be a true stable and reliable rocket engine.
I'd be very curious to know the fuel to oxidizer ratio compared to Raptor and BE-4. Exhaust seems a little dirty right now, maybe due to how they're film cooling the nozzle?
@@thegameroptimus140 raptor isnt film colled the green can be explained by engine rich and the yellow outside flame could be extra fuel from the film cooling i doubt there is any sodium in the engine Edit: do you mean that it looks engine rich because you wrote doesnt but replied to my oxygen rich comment in which i meant after the engine is tuned it will be an oxygen rich film coolled engine
Whoa - that last one - WOWEEE! Mach Diamonds plus, nice blue color. Several of those other shots looked like good clean blue burn. What number engine are we up to now? Wasn't it #3 a couple weeks back? Have you gone for #4 or #5 yet?
Wow look at all those colors :o makes the plume look kinda dirty and powerful, but at the same time it gives off a feeling that the engine can easily make all that power with barely any effort. Reminds me of the old muscle cars, especially with the orange streaks from uncombusted carbon leaving the nozzle. It just does the job, it can afford to throw some of that out
Spectacular. Im curious why over expansion was designed into the nozzle. Is it just test articles or will this be how they are done for flight? If so, I would love to hear the reasoning.
QUESTION: Is that striping effect a camera frame rate thing or nozzle design or some kind of video processing artifacts? Oops, forgot the time stamp 0:09. Thanks.
that’s probably due to the igniter material. It’s called TEA-TEB. when it burns, it burns a REALLY bright green. you can even see it on Falcon 9 launches.!
@@PiDsPagePrototypesyep you need a big hammer to build the most capable rocket in word no need of small hammer when falcon 9 is already in market and every onr trying to catch up with it
Nah, this one for the investment types to see, and post a 'raw sound' version for the nerds later, once your comment has enough likes,... hint, HINT everyone.
@@nathanahubbard1975 Were you a rocket nerd first, or a shareholder first? If the first, hit that like button and get attention for music free version. If the second, Thank You for supporting a great company!
At first I thought it was an interlacing artifact of the camera, but it does look like it is actually there. Methane exhaust should be nearly transparent so the fact that we're seeing anything is probably a result of the engine burning itself -- and the striping is in areas where the "engine rich exhaust" is the most concentrated.
I thought it was the camera at first but it's only specific shots and RL is pretty consistent with always using the same camera kit. I'd be super interested in learning if those were early versions of Neutron or not if the engine is burning through quicker than estimated
What if after neutrons success, the stoke space design were implemented? I honestly feel their 2nd stage design is smarter than SpaceX's and Rocket Labs 1st stage makes more sense than Space X's Starship. Problem is Neutron is being developed with no 2nd stage reuse in mind.
It's so awesome that everyone is building ox-rich staged combustion engines; now that the Soviet advancements have been uncovered, we aren't afraid to go for it!
Dang it....I am about a hour away,but I don't think that they still would let people watch it,this looks like a much different test stand. But one might be able to hear it..from the interstate
Mach-diamonds level 1,000,000: achievement unlocked.
That final clip is a thing of beauty. Great to end on and to have it play with just the engine noise. I assume this is a middlefinger to a certain report/rumours/accusations. Well done in that case.
Yep don't doubt Sir Peter Beck!
what happened?
@@Jamie-d6g people were saying that rocketlab blew up an archimedes engine, so they put this video out to prove they had no issues.
These shorties are burnt
the colors
Congratulation to all investors and the Rocket Lab team; amazing work!
I'm holding until retirement
@@alvaro93364 🤝
@@alvaro93364 Me too!!!!
1:40 Woow. Look at these mach diamonds though.
Indeed. Side note, drop the completely meaningless "though" at the end of your sentence and your apparent iq will double.
Side note, stop telling others how to speak, it'll make you appear less annoying. @@Vatsyayana87
@@Vatsyayana87side note, don’t be a pompous and sarcastic brat and your apparent likability will double
@@theantsaretakingover you both have a point
@@iamaduckquack got ‘im 😜
Congratulation to the Team. You guys did a fantastic job. I know there is still a lot of work to do but you should all take in the cheer since very few engineer in HISTORY manage to do what you did and probably none with your budget lol
That was a lovly test. Good dimonds on that so it will be perfect for higher in the atmosphere. Love what you guys are doing. Love rocket lab. I hope your testing goes well and I cant wait to see neutron lift off
What a thing of beauty. Does appear to be a little more engine-rich exhaust than would be ideal in a lot of the shots, but as a work in progress it's gorgeous.
GOOD JOB EVERYONE INVOLVED!
Very exciting. Brave to post the early runs that were running a little engine rich, but I'm sure you'll get that sorted, and maybe already have.
Getting an engine to start without instantly disassembling itself is an incredible achievement. Well done.
Yeah anybody who has followed Raptor development knows the attention people pay to these colors and the analyses even youtubers have done on them. But given the rest of the speed and if this really is a production configuration engine, they may also tune the engine to more ready also fast.
Congratulations to Rocket Lab for cannonball speed in Neutron/Archimedes development!
I've watched it literally like 50 times already! Love it!❤
I've never seen an engine plume with such a crazy rainbow of colors
Well done rocket lab!
Archimedes is poised to become a workhorse engine in the industry
Lets gooooooo Archimedes
Amazing the flame doesn't even look real... Super cool!
Yooooo Archimedes firing videos!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Nice work Rocket Lab! Rocket Lab logos everywhere in space coming soon 😊
Congratulations! And a great piece of music for this video, as always!
Beautiful flow and mach diamonds 😍
The green makes me wonder if theres an exposure issue, or if Archimedes is burning a litlle "engine-rich" lol
looks great! Love that rainbow flame!
For real ❤
Looks gorgeous!
I hope you got some great data that you can really use to advance your knowledge of the engine.
Thanks to those short sellers, I was able to pick up thousands of long hold shares at $3.74/share. But those guys might want to run for the hills and stay there now.
Jealous of that action.
So far, the only real time RocketLabs and Mr Beck have been wrong, is they didn't know they built a product tough enough to survive re-entry and be recoverable for reuse.
So stunning! I love the fact I’m watching at work❤
On a Sunday? Don't let the boss spot ya slacking off ;)
Engine rich exhaust. But quite interesting exhaust flow
Proof of amazing progress, well done team Rocket Lab! We need more (frequent) content like this.
Go go go! Rocket Lab is in it to win it, and I'm here to support you!
That was incredible! Can’t wait to see it fly!
Take that speculators!
Fantastic! Although the music was a bit offbeat for me so I turned it off. (Much better!) Good luck guys and I look forward to the first launch!
ROAR BABY ROAR!!
Lookin good! I AM seeing bits of green in there during hot-fire rather than at ignition. Which tells me likely melting some copper instead of T-TEB ignition but I'm sure you guys will get it dialed in!!👍
I'm wondering if the green is an imaging/processing artifact of what's going on in "reality".
@@relwalretep meh. Typical copper combustion.
Raptors are suffering the same stuff. Rocket science is hard but engineers will engineer
Now It's Getting REAL!!
So so good to see this. God bless this company ❤❤❤
That's one way to silence the fake news and critics, show them the real thing, well done RocketLab.
Note for the Video team - Global Shutter cameras will get rid of the diagonal lines through the flames. :)
Framing, sound, exposure, all top notch, wish I was getting to do that for a company this side of the Tasman.
Ya'll see those colors in the last clip? Archie has a great sound, powerful engine from the looks of it
Looking good!
*Carl Sagan would smile if he could see these tests.*
Hell Yeah! The last clip was exactly what I was here for.
You can see part of the flame burning a green color throughout the burn. When a rocket engine burns with a green color flame it traditionally means that some of the metal alloys are being burned away. With metal being burned away that means the engine is not acting in a stable state. Thus this engine still has needs more developmentally work on it before it can be a true stable and reliable rocket engine.
Well, that sorts that out doesn't it... Very happy share holder here...
Great work tame. This is brilliant
Im so freaking here for Neutron!
Let's goo!!!! Looking for big things from RKLB!
I'd be very curious to know the fuel to oxidizer ratio compared to Raptor and BE-4. Exhaust seems a little dirty right now, maybe due to how they're film cooling the nozzle?
Well it is oxygen rich so deffinetly more towards oxygen than raptor but be4 should be comperable
@@yakirfrankoveig8094does looks like running feul and engine rich . Raptor runs way cleaner than this.
@@thegameroptimus140 raptor isnt film colled the green can be explained by engine rich and the yellow outside flame could be extra fuel from the film cooling i doubt there is any sodium in the engine
Edit: do you mean that it looks engine rich because you wrote doesnt but replied to my oxygen rich comment in which i meant after the engine is tuned it will be an oxygen rich film coolled engine
@@yakirfrankoveig8094 raptor 2 is partially film cooled what your are saying is true for raptor 3
@@yakirfrankoveig8094 yep typo
Beautiful Exhaust
amazing!!!! what a beauty
Whoa - that last one - WOWEEE! Mach Diamonds plus, nice blue color. Several of those other shots looked like good clean blue burn. What number engine are we up to now? Wasn't it #3 a couple weeks back? Have you gone for #4 or #5 yet?
Geeks prefer Mach Diamonds...
"Mach Diamonds are a Nerd Gal's best friend" ? 😁
I’m definitely gonna see this rocket launch and return from space in the future.
It’ll be a great vacation spot. Capital visit and viewing a launch.
Thanks for sharing!
Cant wait to see the neutron rocket fly and land!
Hallelujah!!! Thank you sweet baby Jesus!!
Wow look at all those colors :o makes the plume look kinda dirty and powerful, but at the same time it gives off a feeling that the engine can easily make all that power with barely any effort. Reminds me of the old muscle cars, especially with the orange streaks from uncombusted carbon leaving the nozzle. It just does the job, it can afford to throw some of that out
Spectacular. Im curious why over expansion was designed into the nozzle. Is it just test articles or will this be how they are done for flight?
If so, I would love to hear the reasoning.
Good observation. Since we see Mach diamond then it mean that the test was done over 100%. So a stress test.
QUESTION: Is that striping effect a camera frame rate thing or nozzle design or some kind of video processing artifacts?
Is copper burning, or is the boron in TEB/TEA what causes the green flames?
Beautiful mach diamonds and I'm sure the engine must have sounded awesome. Pity we had to have music drowning it out
Did you not watch the last 30 seconds?
Is the green color because some copper is burning inside?
Yeah -- it's the engine slowly eating itself.
@@TimCortesilooks like their film cooling isn’t quite dial in yet
@@MrNookj They just gotta test it more. Might need more regen cooling or film cooling like you said
It's running a bit rich with a little instability. Still, kudos to rocket lab. They'll get it dialed in for sure.
Some of it might be TEA-TEB for ignition. That would only be on start-up though.
QUESTION: Is that striping effect a camera frame rate thing or nozzle design or some kind of video processing artifacts? Oops, forgot the time stamp 0:09. Thanks.
Shock diamonds for days!
I’ll bring the marshmallows! 🔥🔥😂😂
Diamonds are a rocket geek's best friend
WOW THAT'S REALLY RESERFORD ENGINE! ! ! !
This song SLAPS
It turns off nice 😊👍🏼
Not bad but can it give my marshmellows a nice charcoaled coating whilst maintaning a silky warm interior?
The green color in the Metalox engine exhaust looks disturbing. I guess in its current state, it is slowly eating itself.
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe Scott Manley will talk about it.
I saw someone comment that it’s likely TEA-TEB which is a liquid that's used to start rocket engines. It burns green when exposed to oxygen.
Yeah the engine rich exhaust is pretty common though for engines in the early stages of development. I'm sure they'll figure it out.
that’s probably due to the igniter material. It’s called TEA-TEB. when it burns, it burns a REALLY bright green. you can even see it on Falcon 9 launches.!
@FailSpace2 Shouldn't be the case mid cycle though. Just for ignition
Neutron will be georgeous❤
(Thanks to the Mach diamonds)
Very impressive!
It succeeded showing Mach Diamond. It is not far from the completion.
Likey likey! Woah! Crickey!
O Raptor 3 é realmente incrível, olha quanta tralha tem neste motor da rocket lab
Good job!
Its a methane powered rocket, there is no TEA-TEB involved here.
Very colorful flames???
Is it my imagination or does that engine have a very smooth crackle to it? Almost purring compared to Raptor?
It's called, refinement. Like choosing the right hammer, not just the biggest.
@@PiDsPagePrototypesyep you need a big hammer to build the most capable rocket in word no need of small hammer when falcon 9 is already in market and every onr trying to catch up with it
That's hot!
That engine does NOT look happy lmao
at least its not suicidal!
Or RUD
More test n tune days ahead, damn fine way to start.
Some cool footage but I get the feeling that engine isn’t having a lovely time
Not gonna lie, would be better with just the music of rocket noise.
Nah, this one for the investment types to see, and post a 'raw sound' version for the nerds later, once your comment has enough likes,... hint, HINT everyone.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes I own shares, and the music was annoying.
@@mmeiselph7234 i thought the mix was great and to just have it play at the end without the music.
@@nathanahubbard1975 Were you a rocket nerd first, or a shareholder first?
If the first, hit that like button and get attention for music free version.
If the second, Thank You for supporting a great company!
Can’t fake those diamonds…🎉
Go Rocket Lab !!!
During some of the shots there is spiral streaking. Is this caused by the regenerative cooling channels inside the nozzle or an angled manifold?
At first I thought it was an interlacing artifact of the camera, but it does look like it is actually there. Methane exhaust should be nearly transparent so the fact that we're seeing anything is probably a result of the engine burning itself -- and the striping is in areas where the "engine rich exhaust" is the most concentrated.
I thought it was the camera at first but it's only specific shots and RL is pretty consistent with always using the same camera kit. I'd be super interested in learning if those were early versions of Neutron or not if the engine is burning through quicker than estimated
a lot of green in that exhaust.....
YES!
impressive...
Can we see one of those ballistic gel heads out in front of it?
Amazing!!! 👌💯🔥
this is why i'm a shareholder
Ball Deep! To Mars!
mach diamonds, ahoy! 🚀💎
insane!
is that nozzle 4 pieces welded together?
What if after neutrons success, the stoke space design were implemented?
I honestly feel their 2nd stage design is smarter than SpaceX's and Rocket Labs 1st stage makes more sense than Space X's Starship.
Problem is Neutron is being developed with no 2nd stage reuse in mind.
Awesome !
When is the next Electron launch from Wallops?
Well that silences ALL of the speculation that there isn't prolonged dragon's breath!!!
Lesgo~~~!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's so awesome that everyone is building ox-rich staged combustion engines; now that the Soviet advancements have been uncovered, we aren't afraid to go for it!
Dang it....I am about a hour away,but I don't think that they still would let people watch it,this looks like a much different test stand. But one might be able to hear it..from the interstate