This is probably the first time they've had footage like this to share, given that this was the first launch where they got the booster back. The quality & quantity of footage they can downlink live from the rocket in flight is limited, this was probably retrieved from the cameras in the booster after they recovered the booster. That probably means there will plenty more of this sort of thing from now on.
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!
Well, the panning would have been done in post - this would be a fixed fisheye camera, a go-pro or similar, and once they got it back, zoomed, panned and distorted the footage to produce this video. They would also have adjusted the brightness levels, too. But, yeah, doesn't matter how they did it, this is a great video. Just getting the camera (an the rocket it was attached to) back is a great achievement.
@@adityarajsrivastava6580 Burning rocket fuel creates exhaust gases, which can carry sound if sufficiently dense (such as near the nozzle just after ignition).
Yeah. Everybody else is wowing at the sound and the acceleration after 2nd stage ignition and I'm stepping frame-by-frame through the video watching how they really do the stage separation push.
@@Markle2k yes i did, i know from experience that you have to apply pressure with same strength on every rod to avoid the part being pushed away from spinning, but in vacuum and micro gravity it does seem to work better than down on earth.
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?
Unfortunately for your meal, the heat won't have the time it needs to reach the centre of the turkey even if it were delivering enough to cook it. And any use of kerolox engines to cook food probably won't taste very good anyway. That being said, thanks for pointing out how sooty it gets! The first couple times I watched this I was so captivated by the sound I didn't think to compare the surfaces.
Check out footage of static fire tests of rocket engines on land. The super heavy booster for Starship with its 30 plus Raptor engines will be so loud that it could prove injurious or even lethal a couple miles away.
Rewatch that vid like 15 times straight. My god is that a beautiful video and the sound is just everything I ever asked for. Ps: really enjoyed to see how the rocket itself is compressed under is own G-Forces in the beginning.
I can't stop watching this. The big green springs ejecting the first stage, then the awesome ignition of the second and seeing it speed away! Its all just awesome
This is incredible, thank you Rocket Lab. You have watch this again at 0.25 speed, at about 7 seconds the upper stage slightly deforms making a noise, the sounds are like music at 0.25 when the motor ignites.
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.
That was AMAZING!!!!!!! CAN'T . . STOP . . . HITTING . . . . REPLAY!! I could put this on a loop!! BTW, congrats on the first stage recovery y'all!! Keep up the amazing work!
You should give a raise to whoever man who filmed this. It is very nice that he/she moved camera at the end and we saw 2nd stage flying away in its full glory. This man had to endure high acceleration, cold vacuum of space and got fire plum at his/her face at the end. Everything for the great shot :)
It's awesome yes, but I think the various Saturn 1B or Saturn 5 interstage videos where you can see the camera itself geting ejected for recovery still are a bit cooler.
Stage separation occurred at about 240,000 ft altitude and there is not much air up there. All the sound you are hearing is the exhaust from the second stage Rutherford engine directly impinging upon the first stage. (Credit: Scott Manley) If you're new to watching rocket launches, check out Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut and Scott Manley on Twitter and TH-cam. Everyday astronaut live streams just about every launch from SpaceX, rocket lab, ULA and several other launch providers. You will learn a ton.
You know why this is awesome? Because you can hear the rocket noise in the vacuum of the space! The sound waves are traveling through the gas expelled by the rocket! I guess that if we were standing out of the way of the gas we wouldn't hear a thing! Cool!
@@desmond-hawkins The upward state is where the metal would rather be. Where it is when the footage starts is basically lagging behind the accelerating of the rocket under thrust. Stomp on the accelerator in your car and your head moves back.
@@AdmiralBob Yeah, that's not at all what's happening here. It's in one place, then gets sucked upward, and *then* stage separation happens. This has nothing to do with acceleration, there's clearly a pressure differential. You can hear gas venting at the same time, it's likely due to the upper stage getting exposed to the vacuum. Several people on Twitter noted the same thing.
@@desmond-hawkins Acceleration can certainly cause that sort of thing. You know how sheet metal bends down when you're holding up against gravity? Take away the gravity, and the bend would disappear too. MECO happens a few seconds before stage sep, and you can hear the sounds of the pumps spinning down right when the deformation you're talking about happens, so there's definitely some time that material is in zero-g. You may yet be right and it does have something to do with the venting sound, but I don't think you should dismiss the capability of acceleration to do this out of hand.
Wow! first its so clean and lights are so bright you think it is in lab then boom and you are exposed to black empty space, then the second stage shoots its exhaust at you. Unbelievable experience!
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!
It sounds and looks like something in a sci-fi movie at 0:05 seconds when the chamber in there de-pressurizes with that weird creepy sound. I love that so much. (also assuming it's de-pressurizing)
You cand clearly hear the sound of the fuel pumps working and shutting down. Also when the acceleration turns to zero the lower dome of the fuel tank moves a little. Amazing stuff.
Just imaging the amount of data in the form of videos these space agencies would be having, I doubt all will be shared but I am also sure from time to time we will get to see such glimpse
You people really need to share more footage like this
Honestly
What do you mean "you people"?!
@@JoeBlac rocket lab? idiot lol
This is probably the first time they've had footage like this to share, given that this was the first launch where they got the booster back. The quality & quantity of footage they can downlink live from the rocket in flight is limited, this was probably retrieved from the cameras in the booster after they recovered the booster. That probably means there will plenty more of this sort of thing from now on.
@@WpGaming1 whoosh
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!
okay...?
Well, the panning would have been done in post - this would be a fixed fisheye camera, a go-pro or similar, and once they got it back, zoomed, panned and distorted the footage to produce this video. They would also have adjusted the brightness levels, too.
But, yeah, doesn't matter how they did it, this is a great video. Just getting the camera (an the rocket it was attached to) back is a great achievement.
SpaceX and NASA have a lot to learn from the quality of this footage
@@robertbackhaus8911 exactly they most likely A.I programmed to make it 4K
@@mechanicalrocketeer4900
Espec. NASA, holy crap!
OK, that was AWESOME
Fully. Best thing I seen on TH-cam in a while
That was very awesome.
I kinda want a rocket to do that to me.
Yeah, I think it’s even better than most of spacex’s views of stage sep
Yes
That is the most awesome thing I've seen like ever
And you've seen quite some things!
Jesus Christ really seems to be interested in space. I've seen his comments on many, many space videos in the past few years
good ol' kiwi ingenuity
@@vulture4117 Well he is from heaven after all.
Holy shit!
Some of the most amazing rocketry footage I have ever seen. Unbelievable...
Did you not watch any falcon heavy launches?
@@KCJbomberFTW mans literally just said **some** please examine the comment before replying
@@KCJbomberFTW some*
And Squirrels are “some” of the longest living land mammals
@@sonb0t alright british nigerian prince
Quite a bit more noise than what I was expecting. Upper stage takes off like a bat out of hell once it lights, too.
I guess the exhaust gas gave the medium for the sound waves to reach the camera.
Probably the vibrations in the metal make some sound too
It would be metal I guess since all the air would have escaped.
Think of it like this: it's like blowing into your microphone.
@@adityarajsrivastava6580 Burning rocket fuel creates exhaust gases, which can carry sound if sufficiently dense (such as near the nozzle just after ignition).
Such a clean and beautiful inter-stage and then BOOM, covered in soot.
Haha I needed the 20th time watching to notice this... that's insane!
Seems like such a shame, it's so damn purty....
I love how you can see the green springs pop out to separate the upper stage.
Yeah. Everybody else is wowing at the sound and the acceleration after 2nd stage ignition and I'm stepping frame-by-frame through the video watching how they really do the stage separation push.
@@Markle2k i wonder how do the many springs apply the same force so it doesn't push the upper stage out of vector.
@@Markle2k same!
@@dflyfpv8765 Did you notice the rods that the second stage rides on while being pushed?
@@Markle2k yes i did, i know from experience that you have to apply pressure with same strength on every rod to avoid the part being pushed away from spinning, but in vacuum and micro gravity it does seem to work better than down on earth.
I set the playback to .25. I watched 10 times in slow motion. We need more videos like this great job.
Scott Manley will probably have something interesting to say about this...
Follow him on Twitter, he already did.
“Hullo its Scott Manley here, so yesterday I saw a video from Rocketlab lighting the 2nd stage engine...”
@@jm56585 and I am reading this in my head with his accent... :-)
@@AlexSvanArt me too
This might be his definition of porn.....😄🌎🌗
I have watched this on repeat for like half an hour. It’s so cool!
That boom when the rocket turns on is such a beautiful noise
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?
Unfortunately for your meal, the heat won't have the time it needs to reach the centre of the turkey even if it were delivering enough to cook it. And any use of kerolox engines to cook food probably won't taste very good anyway. That being said, thanks for pointing out how sooty it gets! The first couple times I watched this I was so captivated by the sound I didn't think to compare the surfaces.
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!
"loud," apparently. I probably should have seen that coming. And I agree, it is wonderful to see this!
Check out footage of static fire tests of rocket engines on land.
The super heavy booster for Starship with its 30 plus Raptor engines will be so loud that it could prove injurious or even lethal a couple miles away.
imagine if a dragon took viagra and steroids while high on glue and wielding the super sledge and you'd know the full power of even a low level rocket
I love how the second stage has to maneuver on ignition to keeps its direction in check. Beautiful stuff.
I am almost positive I am 10,000 of these of these views. I cannot stop watching this. Amazing job Rocket Lab.
I'm still speachless after 2 hours.
I love these engineering cameras. What a time to be alive.
Big thanks to the cameraman for sitting inside the rocket during the flight.
You hoped for more likes didn’t you? :/
Hands down the most amazing stage separation video since the Apollo program. Congrats Rocket Lab!!!
The sound of springs at 0:09 is so incredibly satisfying.
thats not springs
I remember how amazed I was by the escape pod separation in the first Star Wars. This was so much better.
0:10 that clicking sound when it separated was so satisfying
so fucking true
Rewatch that vid like 15 times straight. My god is that a beautiful video and the sound is just everything I ever asked for.
Ps: really enjoyed to see how the rocket itself is compressed under is own G-Forces in the beginning.
I clicked away from a live SpaceX launch to watch this.
Same here.
We all did 😂
i saw that launch i video taped and on my channel
I.didnt
More of that to come I think.
The part where stage 2 fired up it's engine was just so cool!
That's fantastic! I love the way the second stage is all held together by duct tape.
lol
Insanely great.
Hey! it's THE Jack Beyer!
WOW. Idk what, but something about that was way more exiting than I was expecting
Wow! This is some amazing footage! Got goosebumps the moment the 2nd stage lit!
Those pumps are so fast at spinning up and firing wow, that camera view is amazing😍
Excuse me, I have to pick up my jaw from the floor. That was incredible!
holy hell. the sounds, the angle. it’s orgasmic, great work :) !
That rocket firing covered everything in the first stage with a carbon film. Shiny, boom, not so shiny.
One of the best seconds of the past year in this kind of thing......rocket lab congratulations bigess
yo, huge props to the cameraman for risking his life to get this shot for us
i can watch this over and over and over and over again
0:12 the last thing my toilet sees as I drop a bomb from the standing position
I can't stop watching this. The big green springs ejecting the first stage, then the awesome ignition of the second and seeing it speed away! Its all just awesome
Incredible! I want this to be my morning alarm sound.
This is incredible, thank you Rocket Lab. You have watch this again at 0.25 speed, at about 7 seconds the upper stage slightly deforms making a noise, the sounds are like music at 0.25 when the motor ignites.
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.
YT skews count of views, likes and dislikes in order to thwart cheating.
@Mudkip909 there are some who wish to buy views, likes and subs. Technically YT owes you nothing, so...
@@NoHandleToSpeakOf Not technically true, people sign a legally binding contract in order to gain monetization on videos.
That sheet metal bloating out was what raised my eyebrows!
Sounds like the Greybeards summoning the Dragonborn.
Awesome.
The first stage transition from spotless clean to blasted with deposits 👍
Took a few playbacks to really appreciate the quality. Awesome job.
That was AMAZING!!!!!!! CAN'T . . STOP . . . HITTING . . . . REPLAY!! I could put this on a loop!! BTW, congrats on the first stage recovery y'all!! Keep up the amazing work!
Hey SpaceX and NASA, Rocket Lab called and they want to show you how video quality is supposed to be done.🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
SpaceX has incredible quality
You should give a raise to whoever man who filmed this.
It is very nice that he/she moved camera at the end and we saw 2nd stage flying away in its full glory.
This man had to endure high acceleration, cold vacuum of space and got fire plum at his/her face at the end.
Everything for the great shot :)
This might be the coolest bit of rocket footage I've ever seen.
It's awesome yes, but I think the various Saturn 1B or Saturn 5 interstage videos where you can see the camera itself geting ejected for recovery still are a bit cooler.
Extraordinary footage, love how you can see the MECO right before staging!
The audio was BONKERS. I was not expecting that
Stage separation occurred at about 240,000 ft altitude and there is not much air up there.
All the sound you are hearing is the exhaust from the second stage Rutherford engine directly impinging upon the first stage.
(Credit: Scott Manley)
If you're new to watching rocket launches, check out Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut and Scott Manley on Twitter and TH-cam. Everyday astronaut live streams just about every launch from SpaceX, rocket lab, ULA and several other launch providers. You will learn a ton.
Before the engine start the sound went through the fuselage
You know why this is awesome? Because you can hear the rocket noise in the vacuum of the space! The sound waves are traveling through the gas expelled by the rocket! I guess that if we were standing out of the way of the gas we wouldn't hear a thing! Cool!
wonder what the energy was to excite the electron to a higher stage
O for awesome. Cool seeing a bit of yaw from below
Epic camera quality! A "crisp clear" cut above the rest well done team Rocket Lab good stuff..
Nice, I love the exhaust gases hitting the microphone
Wow! Absolutely incredible footage. Could someone explain what caused the deformation at 00:06 or so?
Going to guess main engine cut off
@@DugganSean Yes the main engine cuts off before stage separation, and how does that make all this metal bend upward?
@@desmond-hawkins
The upward state is where the metal would rather be. Where it is when the footage starts is basically lagging behind the accelerating of the rocket under thrust. Stomp on the accelerator in your car and your head moves back.
@@AdmiralBob Yeah, that's not at all what's happening here. It's in one place, then gets sucked upward, and *then* stage separation happens. This has nothing to do with acceleration, there's clearly a pressure differential. You can hear gas venting at the same time, it's likely due to the upper stage getting exposed to the vacuum. Several people on Twitter noted the same thing.
@@desmond-hawkins Acceleration can certainly cause that sort of thing. You know how sheet metal bends down when you're holding up against gravity? Take away the gravity, and the bend would disappear too. MECO happens a few seconds before stage sep, and you can hear the sounds of the pumps spinning down right when the deformation you're talking about happens, so there's definitely some time that material is in zero-g.
You may yet be right and it does have something to do with the venting sound, but I don't think you should dismiss the capability of acceleration to do this out of hand.
Woah! My ears are bleeding after turning the volume up on that up a bit too loud! Awesome footage!
Bye bye upper stag-WHHHHOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHHHH
Wow! first its so clean and lights are so bright you think it is in lab then boom and you are exposed to black empty space, then the second stage shoots its exhaust at you. Unbelievable experience!
The most futuristic thing I've ever seen.
You guys are doing the audio the right way. Love it
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!
There would be sound within the exhaust gases, which interact with both the microphone and the structure of the vehicle which also carries sound
Trevor, they most likely just used a gopro with a waterproof case
That sound is remarkable!!!! almost no air molecules at all, and still it was enough transport sound!
Probably one of my favourite camera angles in all of space flight.
Awesome View! And the camera movement. Nice.
legendary footage, please give us the footage of the journey back down to earth!
Spacex should do the same and release like 4K footage from the landings
That's really hard to do when they lose signal strength during the landing.
Yes! They must have it, and it would be so easy to do.
@@dylanm.3692 Sure it's hard to see live, but surely they have onboard storage for those cameras. They could upload that footage.
That would be great. They do show this stage separation view on the stream, by the way. At least, for Starlink I know they do.
@@Zachhhx Yes, the stage separation is shown on every F9 launch, not just Starlink ones. Well, not for some NRO national security launches.
It sounds and looks like something in a sci-fi movie at 0:05 seconds when the chamber in there de-pressurizes with that weird creepy sound. I love that so much. (also assuming it's de-pressurizing)
Amazing footage. Mad props for the recent achievements! Keep it up Rocket Lab
IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO BE THIS FRIGGING COOL
OmG iTs StAgEd ThEiRs No SoUnD iN sPaCe
flat earthers be like
The SOUND. IT'S EPIC
thats awesome footage, thanks so much for this
This was the best rocket footage I've ever seen.
You cand clearly hear the sound of the fuel pumps working and shutting down. Also when the acceleration turns to zero the lower dome of the fuel tank moves a little.
Amazing stuff.
SpaceX's fairing separation video was really cool, now this, this is amazing. Keep it coming!
That's incredible footage
This is beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
It was all clean and shiny and them boom, all sooty
I just noticed the Spring pistons for separation so Cool!!
that's the coolest thing I've ever seen
I like how you can hear a little sound in space because of the gasses. NEAT!
That vacuum suck just before separation!!!!! What awesome footage!!!
This is better than any CGI I've ever seen.
I guess spaceX should record this scene in the same angle used for Rocket Lab. Its so cool!
agred
I mean they do already on stage separation but with no noise
In the future, people are gonna watch this and be like “haha! Check out this retro setup”
"My rocket has an RGB lit payload bay and modded turbopumps. Launch to orbit in 6 minutes."
This should be used as source material for all SCI-FI movie makers showing spacecraft firing up engines and moving out.
The like to dislike ratio is INSANE! Probably the best I've ever seen on TH-cam
thats how it happens with me too. lots of noise, silence for a second, then pow and there it goes!!!
Most amazing video.. thanks rocket lab!!
Ka Pai! Super happy for you guys - this is super clean!
Just imaging the amount of data in the form of videos these space agencies would be having, I doubt all will be shared but I am also sure from time to time we will get to see such glimpse
🔥🚀Insanely roaring Rutherford 🚀🔥 mygod that sound😱🤩
My favourite part is the green paint on the springs being sizzled off
Absolutely Fantastic video guys! Thank you very much! That is Awesome.
What the... damn, I love this camera position :) And high resolution is awesome!
Maaan he's runnning the latest version of EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements and RealSolarSystem! His pc must be absolute power!
What a beautiful shot