Грузомакет -- Electron -- Mahia -- 24.05.2017, 00:30 UTC

[tnt22]

Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLabUSA 29 мин. назад

Why a black rocket? Carbon composite materials are black! Paint is heavy & adds another process. Plus, doesn't it look beautiful! #ItsaTest

https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/867523393624522753

[tnt22]

Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLabUSA 5 мин. назад

Day progressing well. #ItsaTest

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Такая маленькая ракета, а ведет себя как шаттл.

[Анатолий Ревзин]

Пишут, что погода дрянь, но надежда еще есть

[tnt22]

Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLabUSA 48 сек. назад

Made it to space. Team delighted. More to follow! #ItsaTest

[che wi]

Emily Calandrelli @TheSpaceGal  15 minutes ago

Nice launch from @RocketLabUS

Видео:
https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/867596601824378880

[che wi]

Rocket Lab has created a piece of New Zealand space history with the first successful test launch of an electron rocket off the Mahia Peninsula at about 4.24pm today.

The previous three attempts have been "scrubbed" - with yesterday's launch called off just 12 minutes before the scheduled launch.

More to come.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11863177

[tnt22]

Chief of Air Force‏ @CAF_NZ 4 мин. назад

Congratulations to the @RocketLabUSA team on a successful launch from the men and women of the @NZAirForce. Great job! || #Itsatest

[che wi]

Судя по видео из твита, пуск состоялся в 16:20 по местному времени, а не в 16:24 (как сообщали на nzherald.co.nz)

[tnt22]

Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 16 сек. назад

Rocket Lab confirms the Electron rocket "reached space" after launching from New Zealand at 4:20pm local time (0420 GMT; 12:20am EDT).

[Apollo13]

Подозрительно, что не "made it to orbit"...

[instml]

Неужто до космоса долетели?

[che wi]

ещё видео:
https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/867608512196526080

[Salo]

 Emily Calandrelli‏Подлинная учетная запись @TheSpaceGal
For those asking, not sure if it went orbital. Survived max Q. Vid feed cut out shortly after.

[che wi]

Видео пуска:
https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/867612663764762624

[tnt22]

Очередное видео от Rocket Lab
https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/867619797021859840

[tnt22]

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 3 мин. назад

RocketLab confirms Stage 1 burn & sep, nose fairing sep, Stage 2 ignition, but failure to orbit.

3 мин. назад

This is pretty good because they got to test out almost everything. Puts them in a good position to get to orbit next time.

[tnt22]

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/latest/rocket-lab-successfully-makes-it-to-space-2/

Rocket Lab broke new ground today when its Electron rocket reached space at 16:23 NZST.

Electron lifted-off at 16:20 NZST from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. It was the first orbital-class rocket launched from from a private launch site in the world.

"It has been an incredible day and I'm immensely proud of our talented team," said Peter Beck, CEO and founder of Rocket Lab. "We're one of a few companies to ever develop a rocket from scratch and we did it in under four years. We've worked tirelessly to get to this point. We've developed everything in house, built the world's first private orbital launch range, and we've done it with a small team.

"It was a great flight. We had a great first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and fairing separation. We didn't quite reach orbit and we'll be investigating why, however reaching space in our first test puts us in an incredibly strong position to accelerate the commercial phase of our programme, deliver our customers to orbit and make space open for business," says Beck.

Over the coming weeks, Rocket Lab's engineers in Los Angeles and Auckland, New Zealand will work through the 25,000 data channels that were collected during. The results will inform measures taken to optimize the vehicle.

"We have learnt so much through this test launch and will learn even more in the weeks to come. We're committed to making space accessible and this is a phenomenal milestone in that journey. The applications doing this will open up are endless. Known applications include improved weather reporting, Internet from space, natural disaster prediction, up-to-date maritime data as well as search and rescue services," says Beck.

Today's launch was the first of three test flights scheduled for this year. Rocket Lab will target getting to orbit on the second test and look to maximize the payload the rocket can carry.
At full production, Rocket Lab expects to launch more than 50 times a year, and is regulated to launch up to 120 times a year. In comparison, there were 22 launches last year from the United States, and 82 internationally.

Rocket Lab's commercial phase will see Electron fly already-signed customers including NASA, Spire, Planet, Moon Express and Spaceflight.

[tnt22]

Electron rocket first flight, It's a Test 2017
 
 
 SciNews

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tnt22 пишет:
second stage ignition and fairing separation

Так вторая ступень до конца доработала? Что-то из сообщения не ясно