Rocket Lab has its own UA-cam channel where there's a few videos up, as well as recordings of all their previous launches. They do high quality live webcasts of all launches, too. It's exciting because Rocket Lab are innovating in completely different ways to SpaceX, making them just as interesting to follow despite their focus on small launch.
*Electron* is a unique rocket and *Rocket Lab* a very interesting company. They have many articles and pictures in the "news" section of their web site, which go back to the beginning of this project.
as a 46 year old who was so disillusioned with NASA for so long, i'm so utterly happy to see all these stories of how well and fast the private space industry is growing!
That was a really great part of the talk -- which also explained why Rocket Lab has a competitive advantage over other startups attempting to provide launch services. Many people think that it is just a technical problem.
I follow aerospace stuff and especially SpaceX, but I had never heard of this guy or his company until now. I will be watching this company now they are doing some pretty interesting things
Good to hear him talking about this. Space Force is being created for a very good reason and space is the next combatant arena that we are not prepared for. Maybe I need to work for this guy. This is such forward thinking.
I'm not typically a big fan boy however I suppose like anyone over the years there are many people throughout history (Michelangelo and DaVinci) that I've enjoyed learning about and have found myself astounded by the level of contribution they've provided through the course of their lives and study. Years ago I developed a certain fondness for Richard Branson. Not only for what he's achieved in his life but also from what I seen of his adventurous lifestyle, and many other reasons. After that, Elon (modern day DaVinci?) Musk. In the last year I've ran across tidbits of Peter Beck and each time the gut (our so called second brain) says "Yeah, I dig this Beck guy"). There are quite a few more and as well all know a huge number of men and women throughout history that have made so many amazing contributions to mankind in every field known. The thing that gets me about these guys, and I believe all three have this quality, is a certain humble way of presenting/delivering/sharing what they are up to that makes you want to pop off to the pub for burgers and beer and hear more. The contribution Peter and Rocket Lab have made already is phenomenal. I believe the future for them, and us, is pretty bright. Looking forward seeing what they bring to the table.
I don't think there is much in common between them...except the danger of hitting junk (or in the movie, rocks) in space. BTW, that movie could've been so much better. As some movie buff (who I can't remember) on youtube pointed out, had it started from her point of view, being woken into what would appear as a crime scene and trying to work out what had happened and what to believe or not, would've made for a much better movie....especially when the truth came out. Then you could cut back to how everything came to be. And for extra thrills, had she not been able to revive him, what would she do?
Yet another comment section full of frothingly one-eyed SpaceX fanbois who listened to an Elon presentation, watched a couple of Falcon 9 launches, and now think they know more about the satellite launch business than the guy giving the talk. SpaceX is an amazing company that's achieved some incredible things in 20-odd years, largely thanks to Elon's ability to attract and retain some very talented engineers and operations/management staff. What Peter Beck and RocketLab have achieved in around five years with a fraction of SpaceX's funding is also pretty remarkable, and they will continue to innovate and succeed in their chosen market of smallsat/rideshare launchers.
@@OldManPaxusYT This talk was in May 2019. This summer they revealed they would gonna reuse Electron's first stage, mostly because it is hard to increase construction rates without going crazy and with reuse if you can use the booster just another time you're basically doubling production. Just as recently as last week they did the first reentry test successfully proving the Electron first stage could survive reentry or as "The Wall" like Peter says. Next step is in air recovery of the booster via helicopter which will come once they are ready to do so.
@@ale131296 Oh wow! That's great! THANKS! Also, nice that u could just tell me, rather than call me an idiot for not knowing etc ; )P Usually YT comments are like a toxic Mad Max thunderdome or something....
@@MikeKoenigs They don't seem to have actually built anything though. Nothing against them specifically, but you've gotta make it to orbit before it counts
@@lewismassie That's true that Elon Musk started with things other than building space rockets. But so did Peter Beck -- he built his company up for many years, doing contracts for american military manufacturers and DARPA before switching to space launch vehicles. And he was only able to do this by attracting a vast amount of money from investors -- same as SpaceX. There is even more similarity -- neither company would have been possible without being able to tap already existing in Los Angeles area ecosystem of aerospace manufacturing --- they both got engineers with the necessary experience and knowledge in rocket propulsion, avionics, navigation and guidance, plus access the necessary equipment and components. As much as both companies innovate, they still very much depend on these resources.
The problem with small rockets is mass efficiency scales with size, lerger rockets are proportionately higher fuel to mass ratio. Which translates to lower launch costs per pound.
Tehcnically the second stage of Electron doesn't deorbit, it is just left in an elliptical orbit and atmospheric drag makes that orbit decay. SpaceX does that on all GTO missions. For LEO missions when there is enough performance left they do an active deorbit burn basically bringing the second stage as soon as possible
@@GerardHammond Peter is outright dirty here. As Alejandro Alcantarilla have already said, Rocket Lab does *not* in fact deorbit their hardware, while SpaceX *does* after similar launches. It is easy to verify -- go to any satellite tracking web site and type "Electron" as the name of the satellite. You will find 6 kick stages and 4 second stages from Rocket Lab still in orbit, while all of the recent SpaceX launches to LEO have deorbited immediately after launch.
The knowledge of the world is wasted on most people unfortunately but im glad the bright and the bold of the developing world will get the tools they need
@@d3r4g45 For the launches to the same types of orbits, SpaceX usually deorbits the second stage on the first orbit. Rocket Lab second stages and kick stages, on the other hand, often remain in space.
Model rockets launched from weather balloon platforms towing them can launch cells into space. Future of space travel is actually with the use of quantum eraser experiments focused on rewritting starlight waves to particles. The quantum eraser experiments focused on rewritting starlight waves to particles allow us to sculpt starlight into mechanisms at the edge of our Universe horizon and that allows us to use mechanisms we scuulpt at the next horizon and furthur in moments, then arrange light in the way of the return path to arrive anywhere (even any thought) anytime before or after being sent.
Well, to be fair, the way you've spelled each pronunciation is precisely how each pronunciation is spelled (EDIT: I'm laughing after reading that sentence back because that sounds redundant.. yet, it is true! **lol**). Americans don't say "aluminium" because that second "i" doesn't exist in the word for us. Until a couple years ago, I had no idea there was a different pronunciation and spelling for the word. I wonder why this is...????
@@JenSpen77 IIRC, it is becouse in early datys of "chep" Al (few centuries before, it was more valueable then gold), its producent thought Aluminium sounds like much better and luxury metal than aluminum
Wow! Really awesome Peter! What you are doing and your concept; really great! ✨📡📢 I love evolution with technology, with respect for the people and the planet 😍 🙏🏼😊💖 #discoverenjoyfeelgood2
SUCH Developments Get Rocket Labs NZ phone number off their website and give them a call. Just ask for Peter and they'll pop you through to him (it's a kiwi thing) although try to keep it brief as he may be quite busy.
what i don't get about rocket launches, is shouldnt we find a better way to get into orbit before we use up all the rocket fuel? I've literally done zero research but it seems like it is a resource that should be saved
Rocket fuel in most cases is kerosene, it's basically the same stuff airplane turbines burn. We are not going to run out of it until we run out of oil, at which point we have bigger problems.
Small rockets are the revolution only if you are launching a dozen of cube sats. But it's very difficult to squeeze a person into a cube sat. Even if there is a dozen of them.
Peter Beck is an amazing person and true inspiration! I know most people are Elon's fans but if you think what Peter has achieved - to launch rockets in New Zealand, it's just WOW! Respect, Peter! I wish there were more of you on this world! A lot more! (And honestly, I wish the USA weren't the only ones deciding who has the right to launch rockets and who doesn't. Because somehow it's awfully unfair. I mean, they're even counting the Electron launches to the US launches on wikipedia. Why? That's not a US rocket and my guess is the only reason why Lockheed Martin got a piece of Rocket Lab is so that they can launch from the USA, i.e. to get US military contracts and get some cash inflow. )
And with way less funding. Elon Musk from his earlier ventures had a lot of Silicon Valley billionaire friends which gave him access to a lot of funding. That Peter Beck managed to secure funding for a rocket in New Zealand is quite astonishing. Not to mention how much more limited access to the right talent he would have. New Zealand is about 5 million people. Greater Los Angeles is almost 20 million people.
Perhaps not in all cases. I agree with you, but perhaps they've found a way around that? It may be in terms of the costs of production as well as higher cost per pound factored into much smaller minimum weight. Think of buying groceries in bulk- they're cheaper long term, but only if you have the storage space to place them and the money to buy large quantities. If you have a bicycle or have to carry your groceries on the bus or train to your tiny apartment, you can't buy massive packs of anything. In this case, maybe a high school science class could raise $100,000 to launch a micro satellite, where they couldn't raise $10M. And with miniaturization, they don't need to.
yes cost per kg goes down unless your 100 satellites all need to go into different orbits because they're from 100 different people. All of a sudden that job of ferrying around to get into 100 different orbits becomes an impossible task.
FINALLY!!!! Satellite launches is going to allow flat earthers to launch a satellite into ORBIT AROUND earth debunk the sphere earth theory.... oh wait...
Reusing engine’s technically are more dangerous as during reentry they can be damaged in multiple ways, not to mention they have to go through many lengthy inspections to insure that they are flight ready once more. With 3D printing you can have a engine flight ready at a much quicker rate. Meaning more flights
With first stage reuse they'll mostly only need to manufacture second stages, which are a lot smaller, and only have 1 engine. So this will go a long way to increase launch frequency.
Seems awfully wasteful and costly to launch so many rockets and let all the booster stages burn up in the atmosphere. If I missed something key about this process not being wasteful or costly do let me know, but why not adopt something more like spacex where the booster stages actually come back and land?
Yeah it's wasteful, but Rocket lab is also working on a reusable system. But it's a bit different from spacex's approach. But actually they stated that the main reason they want reusability is not cutting the costs, but rather launch frequency.
Not quite. The second stage of Falcon 9 is $10 million worth of material. One Electron rocket costs about $2 million to make. The whole thing is launched for $6-7 million. So each Falcon 9 launch actually wastes more than an expendable Electron rocket. So it depends on what you want to do. If you got to place a small satellite at a particular orbit, you can do that by wasting less with Electron than with a Falcon 9. However in cases where you can send several satellites in the same payload the tradeoff will be different. Anyway Electron Lab is actually close to developing reusability as well now. Their rocket wasn't actually designed for it, but they seem to be able to pull it off anyway. It is small enough to use parachutes. These don't scale well so you cannot use parachutes with a Falcon 9 e.g. but it works for a small rocket like Electron.
he should share how to solve the junk i space instead of directly coming to the conclusion that it's their dirty secret it;s a bit harsh for the hard workers who work on those rockets and who knows he might even get ideas from them n now a bit of stepping on them parasyte
This guys was talking about how he HAD to make a rocket every 72 hours meanwhile elon over hear is reusing rokets constantly and as far as i no(pls correct me if im wrong) nobody else is reusing rockets and just building more and well polluting the planet bc y can anything just be ok for the environment
Mr. Beck is working on Electron Rocket recovery, using parafoil and helicopter(s). But so far, only reusable systems were/are SpaceX Falcon 9 and Space Shuttle. Space Shuttle weren't economicly feasible, but reusable. Even solid rocket boosters were refurbrished after getting them out of the water, thou they were really just empty tubes.
I thought the new concensus for rockets was that it was very stupid to make one time usage rockets... as it’s very unsustainable and expensive. Or is this guy living in a world where SpaceX doesn’t exist?
SpaceX is ahead of everybody else, not just Rocket Lab. And the smaller is the rocket, the less extra weight it can carry -- which makes it very difficult to make it reusable or to deorbit the second stage after launch. For example, SpaceX has enough leftover fuel and deorbits their second stages usually on the first or second orbit after payload separation to a LEO. But Rocket Lab only leaves theirs in an elliptical orbit which slowly decays over months or years -- though in this talk Peter presents this as something greater than what everybody else is doing. It is not -- he is just giving a theatrical performance here to promote his company, because so many people are talking these days about "space junk" and he wants to be seen as a good guy. For the same reason he ends his speech talking about giving satellite internet to all the poor people across the globe -- which he has absolutely nothing to do with. But on the plus side, Rocket Lab has recently started to investigate if they can make their rocket reusable! In the latest flight the first stage had a new control system to keep it oriented while it was falling back. They are hiring engineers to try to develop a reusable version of the rocket. It will be very cool if they succeed! I think they are an amazing company, but I would have liked them even more if Peter did not spin his propaganda so shamelessly.
Pyro Panda Lets not get it twisted. SpaceX is most definitely going to charge for the pleasure of having WiFi everywhere on the planet. If they don’t, then Elon Musk will go down in the history books as the man who gave undeveloped and developing nations access to the internet. My best guess is that us in developed nations will pay a rate while those in developing and undeveloped nations pay close to nothing.
This talk needed to be a LOT longer. I want to learn everything about his company and hear him talk about more space things.
Aweome stuff!
Rocket Lab has its own UA-cam channel where there's a few videos up, as well as recordings of all their previous launches. They do high quality live webcasts of all launches, too.
It's exciting because Rocket Lab are innovating in completely different ways to SpaceX, making them just as interesting to follow despite their focus on small launch.
*Electron* is a unique rocket and *Rocket Lab* a very interesting company. They have many articles and pictures in the "news" section of their web site, which go back to the beginning of this project.
Go to channel "Everyday Astronaut" he has whole playlist about RocketLab, including 2 interviews with CEO
@@TheKwiatek Yes, he has a recent interview, which goes in-depth about recovering the rocket and plans for future!
NASA Spaceflight also has an interview with him where he talks more in depth about his plans.
The key is not the size.
The key is frequency.
They just tell you that not to hurt your feelings.
lol sounds like a dirty joke but logical
What about both at the same time! ahem starship
I'd just like to point out that it's a crime that no one clapped at 7:13
I can hear that some are actually about to clap, he just didn’t give them enough time, he started talking immediately
@@ceasarsalad2055 nope its cut
True..
they have zero clues what even he is talking about. an engine per 24 hours is crazy. Just heard it recently and went like: what?
why
as a 46 year old who was so disillusioned with NASA for so long, i'm so utterly happy to see all these stories of how well and fast the private space industry is growing!
The shuttle was really cool, but was a terrible idea in hindsight. refining the Saturn V would have done a lot more for us.
somedude NASA did not have the money
Going to get me some Rocket Lab stocks to help get humanity out there! 👨🚀👩🚀🚀⭐
This guy is absolutely brilliant. How incredible it is to have both Beck and Musk pioneering rocket design at the same time.
Been following rocket lab since the start! YOU GO PETER!!!
Starting today I'm cheating on Elon and following him and his company as well. I think private space industry is the way forward.
@@actionjksn cheating on elon 🤷♂️🤣
He's a natural. Knows what he's talking about, great sense of humor, and big dreams. Fantastic CEO.
Totes
Rocket Lab is our future. Peter Beck is a great person!
Launch a rocket every 72 hours ?
No problem ! I m a Factorio veteran !
Lmao!! A surviving Mars player here
Haha. I guess Factorio becomes mainstream now?
I love he's thinking about space junk.
Does SpaceX make junk?
@@velucadhirim6725 I'm not sure, but I DO know they are testing rockets where each stage returns to earth to be reused.
@nuitNo.6 They actually are going to reuse Electron
@nuitNo.6 you're the one saying "buffoon"
nuitNo.6 He’s not trying to imitate Elon, he’s he and doesn’t need to imitate or be like anyone.
I’m officially a fan of Peter Beck and Electron.
Tēnā rawa atu koe. Me kore ake koe hei whakaako mai i a mātou.
Thanks, we're lucky to have you showing the way.
What a great talk. Thanks Peter. Very interesting to hear a CTO talk about regulatory issues and fighting physics
He's the founder :)
That was a really great part of the talk -- which also explained why Rocket Lab has a competitive advantage over other startups attempting to provide launch services. Many people think that it is just a technical problem.
IMHO CTO > CEO@@alekspapez
Your a legend Peter
This guy is great! 💛
This is great! I'm looking forward to the future of Rocket Lab!
I follow aerospace stuff and especially SpaceX, but I had never heard of this guy or his company until now. I will be watching this company now they are doing some pretty interesting things
6:19 Makes me think of Elon & all the other things hes simultaneously wanting to do. Nothing but respect to them
Amazing. Well done Mr Beck.
I've been quite fascinated by your works
Heads up. This guy is the official owner of a rocket company called rocket lab.
A lot of TED talks are little more than advertising. Money talks.
That's pretty obvious if you watch the video
@@ASLUHLUHC3 R/Whooosshhhhhhhhhhh
@@velucadhirim6725 What was the pupose of your comment then
@@Miranox2 He doesn't need to give a TED talk to sell his rockets, it's not like buying a car.
Good to hear him talking about this. Space Force is being created for a very good reason and space is the next combatant arena that we are not prepared for. Maybe I need to work for this guy. This is such forward thinking.
I'm not typically a big fan boy however I suppose like anyone over the years there are many people throughout history (Michelangelo and DaVinci) that I've enjoyed learning about and have found myself astounded by the level of contribution they've provided through the course of their lives and study. Years ago I developed a certain fondness for Richard Branson. Not only for what he's achieved in his life but also from what I seen of his adventurous lifestyle, and many other reasons. After that, Elon (modern day DaVinci?) Musk. In the last year I've ran across tidbits of Peter Beck and each time the gut (our so called second brain) says "Yeah, I dig this Beck guy"). There are quite a few more and as well all know a huge number of men and women throughout history that have made so many amazing contributions to mankind in every field known. The thing that gets me about these guys, and I believe all three have this quality, is a certain humble way of presenting/delivering/sharing what they are up to that makes you want to pop off to the pub for burgers and beer and hear more. The contribution Peter and Rocket Lab have made already is phenomenal. I believe the future for them, and us, is pretty bright. Looking forward seeing what they bring to the table.
Watching this after just finishing "Passengers" so I'm interested in what's about to be spoke about!!
I don't think there is much in common between them...except the danger of hitting junk (or in the movie, rocks) in space. BTW, that movie could've been so much better. As some movie buff (who I can't remember) on youtube pointed out, had it started from her point of view, being woken into what would appear as a crime scene and trying to work out what had happened and what to believe or not, would've made for a much better movie....especially when the truth came out. Then you could cut back to how everything came to be. And for extra thrills, had she not been able to revive him, what would she do?
Amazing talk, very interesting. Thank you Peter!
a year ago: small rockets are the future
a few weeks ago: we are building a bigger rocket
It's just targeting a different market, they are diversifying.
Yet another comment section full of frothingly one-eyed SpaceX fanbois who listened to an Elon presentation, watched a couple of Falcon 9 launches, and now think they know more about the satellite launch business than the guy giving the talk.
SpaceX is an amazing company that's achieved some incredible things in 20-odd years, largely thanks to Elon's ability to attract and retain some very talented engineers and operations/management staff. What Peter Beck and RocketLab have achieved in around five years with a fraction of SpaceX's funding is also pretty remarkable, and they will continue to innovate and succeed in their chosen market of smallsat/rideshare launchers.
Isnt Elon trying to give internet to the world with his satellites?
Yup he's referring to spacex
@@ASLUHLUHC3 among others
lol
Yeah star link
He isn't trying. He is giving the internet to the world. Do, or do not. There is not trying.
Absolutely amazing!!!
Great talker, funny and interesting!
Fantastic. Truly amazing guy
Peter’s one of the greats
Everyday before i sleep, i watch one Tedtalk, and its sooo awesome!!!
White Man You can keep living in your strange world I guess
People in the comments arguing that reusable rockets are better
Little did they know that Electron is actually reusable
what are u talking about, he clearly explained they have to keep making new ones every 3 days or so and that the stages are burned off after use....
@@OldManPaxusYT This talk was in May 2019. This summer they revealed they would gonna reuse Electron's first stage, mostly because it is hard to increase construction rates without going crazy and with reuse if you can use the booster just another time you're basically doubling production. Just as recently as last week they did the first reentry test successfully proving the Electron first stage could survive reentry or as "The Wall" like Peter says. Next step is in air recovery of the booster via helicopter which will come once they are ready to do so.
@@ale131296 Oh wow! That's great!
THANKS!
Also, nice that u could just tell me, rather than call me an idiot for not knowing etc ; )P
Usually YT comments are like a toxic Mad Max thunderdome or something....
It is not actually reusable. It has plans for it to be. it is not right now.
@@DanielFenandes THAT is what i thought!
thanks.
Bit disingenuous to write, 'Little did they know that Electron is actually reusable'
The best part about this guy, is he's the only non-millionaire, non-national agency in this game. The only one.
And he also still has his rocket bike
Just like Elon Musk. And now both of them are owners of (multi)billion-dollar companies!
@@MikeKoenigs They don't seem to have actually built anything though. Nothing against them specifically, but you've gotta make it to orbit before it counts
@@cogoid Musk actually made his first million before starting SpaceX from starting PayPal and selling it to eBay
@@lewismassie That's true that Elon Musk started with things other than building space rockets. But so did Peter Beck -- he built his company up for many years, doing contracts for american military manufacturers and DARPA before switching to space launch vehicles. And he was only able to do this by attracting a vast amount of money from investors -- same as SpaceX. There is even more similarity -- neither company would have been possible without being able to tap already existing in Los Angeles area ecosystem of aerospace manufacturing --- they both got engineers with the necessary experience and knowledge in rocket propulsion, avionics, navigation and guidance, plus access the necessary equipment and components. As much as both companies innovate, they still very much depend on these resources.
Brilliant 👏
Nobody is looking for extraterrestrial life anymore. We are building a Gateway for humanity to step out into our solar system. We are that life.
This and Astra are my gems
Astra?
7:08 An engine a day keeps the rocket engineer away!
Invest in VACQ
Extraordinary
The problem with small rockets is mass efficiency scales with size, lerger rockets are proportionately higher fuel to mass ratio. Which translates to lower launch costs per pound.
TheNoodlyAppendage Who the heck uses pounds? Myanmar, Liberia and some other shitehole ;-)
Excellent news and I hope he is part of the international business of space development which I don't doubt is going to be something of a gold rush.
New Zealand baby!
Investing in VACQ right now!!! Soon that will be the Rocket Labs stock.
It look a bit like a sales pitch... But dang it, it worked on me.
SOLD!
Aotearoa~NZ *IS* a centre of sapce stuf: Ernest Rutherford (theoretical atomic physics), Bill Pickering (NASA), Beatrice Tinsley (astro-physicist)
Wait... doesn't SpaceX also do a de-orbit burn with their second stages?
Not always, sometimes they don't have the fuel margin to do so.
Nope. They put it into a graveyard orbit. Peter is corerct though. It's a filthy little secret of all other space companies/launches
Tehcnically the second stage of Electron doesn't deorbit, it is just left in an elliptical orbit and atmospheric drag makes that orbit decay. SpaceX does that on all GTO missions. For LEO missions when there is enough performance left they do an active deorbit burn basically bringing the second stage as soon as possible
@@GerardHammond Peter is outright dirty here. As
Alejandro Alcantarilla have already said, Rocket Lab does *not* in fact deorbit their hardware, while SpaceX *does* after similar launches. It is easy to verify -- go to any satellite tracking web site and type "Electron" as the name of the satellite. You will find 6 kick stages and 4 second stages from Rocket Lab still in orbit, while all of the recent SpaceX launches to LEO have deorbited immediately after launch.
The knowledge of the world is wasted on most people unfortunately but im glad the bright and the bold of the developing world will get the tools they need
Brilliant.
Got some stock waiting for merger this July!!
My MAN!!!
Bougth last week already 30% profit
Excuse my ignorance, but does space x leave anything in space? Rocket wise
There is one stage that flies back and another stage that remains, plus the satellites.
@@d3r4g45 For the launches to the same types of orbits, SpaceX usually deorbits the second stage on the first orbit. Rocket Lab second stages and kick stages, on the other hand, often remain in space.
Do it RocketLab !
"Each of the cocain sized turbo pumps produce mount of horse powers as your average family car and we have 20 of them on the rocket"
Super cool
I want my rocket long and with girth, I want me a damm Flagship
My dad has a longer rocket than yours 😀
Model rockets launched from weather balloon platforms towing them can launch cells into space.
Future of space travel is actually with the use of quantum eraser experiments focused on rewritting starlight waves to particles.
The quantum eraser experiments focused on rewritting starlight waves to particles allow us to sculpt starlight into mechanisms at the edge of our Universe horizon and that allows us to use mechanisms we scuulpt at the next horizon and furthur in moments, then arrange light in the way of the return path to arrive anywhere (even any thought) anytime before or after being sent.
As soon as they are deployed, how will they be maneuvered?
They’re not. This is standard. They will eventually decay and fall back down, but that’s a feature and not a bug.
Moving on
Canadians also say "Aluminium". It's folks in the US of A that say "Aluminum"
Well, to be fair, the way you've spelled each pronunciation is precisely how each pronunciation is spelled (EDIT: I'm laughing after reading that sentence back because that sounds redundant.. yet, it is true! **lol**). Americans don't say "aluminium" because that second "i" doesn't exist in the word for us. Until a couple years ago, I had no idea there was a different pronunciation and spelling for the word. I wonder why this is...????
Vancouver says aluminum.
@@JenSpen77 IIRC, it is becouse in early datys of "chep" Al (few centuries before, it was more valueable then gold), its producent thought Aluminium sounds like much better and luxury metal than aluminum
1:39
yeah no it doesn't. that's the chip that runs the software for those devices. sure, those devices are small but that's not the whole satellite.
yes it is, I've held one of those in my hand. The chip includes the CMOS sensors, its just missing the lenses.
yeah...so it's *not* the whole 'spacecraft'. i'm so sick of TED talks being disingenuous for the 'wow' factor.
A number of large programs to deliver Internet to every square millimetre of the planet?? Whaaat?? Can you please give us more detail on this?
Starlink, OneWeb, Project Kuiper
No small task.... amazing
Cool guy too.
Are they using reusable rockets?
not yet. just cheap, quickly made ones. they're working on testing stuff for booster reusability, though.
Parachutes are being used.
Wow! Really awesome Peter! What you are doing and your concept; really great! ✨📡📢
I love evolution with technology, with respect for the people and the planet 😍
🙏🏼😊💖
#discoverenjoyfeelgood2
How do get contact details of Peter Beck
I twitter him
SUCH Developments Get Rocket Labs NZ phone number off their website and give them a call. Just ask for Peter and they'll pop you through to him (it's a kiwi thing) although try to keep it brief as he may be quite busy.
@@lewtscott3346 lol
what i don't get about rocket launches, is shouldnt we find a better way to get into orbit before we use up all the rocket fuel? I've literally done zero research but it seems like it is a resource that should be saved
Rocket fuel in most cases is kerosene, it's basically the same stuff airplane turbines burn. We are not going to run out of it until we run out of oil, at which point we have bigger problems.
Small rockets are the revolution only if you are launching a dozen of cube sats. But it's very difficult to squeeze a person into a cube sat. Even if there is a dozen of them.
Can we transport him in prices and assemble in orbit?
Hi
Peter Beck is an amazing person and true inspiration! I know most people are Elon's fans but if you think what Peter has achieved - to launch rockets in New Zealand, it's just WOW! Respect, Peter! I wish there were more of you on this world! A lot more!
(And honestly, I wish the USA weren't the only ones deciding who has the right to launch rockets and who doesn't. Because somehow it's awfully unfair. I mean, they're even counting the Electron launches to the US launches on wikipedia. Why? That's not a US rocket and my guess is the only reason why Lockheed Martin got a piece of Rocket Lab is so that they can launch from the USA, i.e. to get US military contracts and get some cash inflow. )
And with way less funding. Elon Musk from his earlier ventures had a lot of Silicon Valley billionaire friends which gave him access to a lot of funding. That Peter Beck managed to secure funding for a rocket in New Zealand is quite astonishing. Not to mention how much more limited access to the right talent he would have. New Zealand is about 5 million people. Greater Los Angeles is almost 20 million people.
6:15
Is he being serious when he says you can send lightning bolts down to earth?
Nutron announcement on 2nd Dec!
Seriously? 😂
Larger is better with rockets. If you want to get the cost per Kg of cargo down, go bigger.
Perhaps not in all cases. I agree with you, but perhaps they've found a way around that? It may be in terms of the costs of production as well as higher cost per pound factored into much smaller minimum weight. Think of buying groceries in bulk- they're cheaper long term, but only if you have the storage space to place them and the money to buy large quantities. If you have a bicycle or have to carry your groceries on the bus or train to your tiny apartment, you can't buy massive packs of anything.
In this case, maybe a high school science class could raise $100,000 to launch a micro satellite, where they couldn't raise $10M. And with miniaturization, they don't need to.
yes cost per kg goes down unless your 100 satellites all need to go into different orbits because they're from 100 different people. All of a sudden that job of ferrying around to get into 100 different orbits becomes an impossible task.
FINALLY!!!! Satellite launches is going to allow flat earthers to launch a satellite into ORBIT AROUND earth debunk the sphere earth theory.... oh wait...
I knew I should’ve payed attention to 6th grade science..
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3D printing rockets every 24hours instead of reusing then like spacex ?
Reusing engine’s technically are more dangerous as during reentry they can be damaged in multiple ways, not to mention they have to go through many lengthy inspections to insure that they are flight ready once more.
With 3D printing you can have a engine flight ready at a much quicker rate. Meaning more flights
SpaceX is doing both. A raptor engine only cost 250k apiece.
Kinda. It is question witch is better-reusing is not for free. + Electron is now going reusable, so rocketlab will have both
This way we can place baby Kal El in one of them.
Electron is not even reusable. Why not?
With first stage reuse they'll mostly only need to manufacture second stages, which are a lot smaller, and only have 1 engine. So this will go a long way to increase launch frequency.
First valuable video for a while ❤️ please no sjw rubbish.
Gravity fields are already being used
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UAAAAL, what an accomplishment. You must be feeling amazing right now. Congratulations. /s
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Elon Musk "hold my cold gas rocket thrusters"
Starlink rideshare... Yes, even rocketlab is dead.
a man explaining that His rocket doesn't have to be as big as the other guys Rocket.
SpaceX Starship :
anyone $RKLB investor here ? congratulations , today the stock traded at $12.4 billion at $25.84 dollar per share ..it will goes to $100 in year 2025
sure, peter seems really like rocket and a leader who is interested in his own business will make his business successful
there's no -ium at the end of aluminum ......
In french there is, aluminium
In New Zealand we spell it "Aluminium"
But is it reusable?
Big fan of small rockets, but why dont bring them back?
Like Elon said, Imagine a big pallet of cash falling from the sky, would you catch it?
Johnny Barendrecht They are working on that. They plan to capture the first stage with a helicopter.
Seems awfully wasteful and costly to launch so many rockets and let all the booster stages burn up in the atmosphere. If I missed something key about this process not being wasteful or costly do let me know, but why not adopt something more like spacex where the booster stages actually come back and land?
Yeah it's wasteful, but Rocket lab is also working on a reusable system. But it's a bit different from spacex's approach. But actually they stated that the main reason they want reusability is not cutting the costs, but rather launch frequency.
Not quite. The second stage of Falcon 9 is $10 million worth of material. One Electron rocket costs about $2 million to make. The whole thing is launched for $6-7 million. So each Falcon 9 launch actually wastes more than an expendable Electron rocket.
So it depends on what you want to do. If you got to place a small satellite at a particular orbit, you can do that by wasting less with Electron than with a Falcon 9. However in cases where you can send several satellites in the same payload the tradeoff will be different.
Anyway Electron Lab is actually close to developing reusability as well now. Their rocket wasn't actually designed for it, but they seem to be able to pull it off anyway. It is small enough to use parachutes. These don't scale well so you cannot use parachutes with a Falcon 9 e.g. but it works for a small rocket like Electron.
he should share how to solve the junk i space instead of directly coming to the conclusion that it's their dirty secret it;s a bit harsh for the hard workers who work on those rockets and who knows he might even get ideas from them n now a bit of stepping on them parasyte
This guys was talking about how he HAD to make a rocket every 72 hours meanwhile elon over hear is reusing rokets constantly and as far as i no(pls correct me if im wrong) nobody else is reusing rockets and just building more and well polluting the planet bc y can anything just be ok for the environment
Mr. Beck is working on Electron Rocket recovery, using parafoil and helicopter(s). But so far, only reusable systems were/are SpaceX Falcon 9 and Space Shuttle. Space Shuttle weren't economicly feasible, but reusable. Even solid rocket boosters were refurbrished after getting them out of the water, thou they were really just empty tubes.
Beck is reusing as well
And they announced making larger rockets... guess it wasn’t the future.
It's called adaptation
I thought the new concensus for rockets was that it was very stupid to make one time usage rockets... as it’s very unsustainable and expensive. Or is this guy living in a world where SpaceX doesn’t exist?
SpaceX is ahead of everybody else, not just Rocket Lab. And the smaller is the rocket, the less extra weight it can carry -- which makes it very difficult to make it reusable or to deorbit the second stage after launch. For example, SpaceX has enough leftover fuel and deorbits their second stages usually on the first or second orbit after payload separation to a LEO. But Rocket Lab only leaves theirs in an elliptical orbit which slowly decays over months or years -- though in this talk Peter presents this as something greater than what everybody else is doing. It is not -- he is just giving a theatrical performance here to promote his company, because so many people are talking these days about "space junk" and he wants to be seen as a good guy. For the same reason he ends his speech talking about giving satellite internet to all the poor people across the globe -- which he has absolutely nothing to do with.
But on the plus side, Rocket Lab has recently started to investigate if they can make their rocket reusable! In the latest flight the first stage had a new control system to keep it oriented while it was falling back. They are hiring engineers to try to develop a reusable version of the rocket. It will be very cool if they succeed! I think they are an amazing company, but I would have liked them even more if Peter did not spin his propaganda so shamelessly.
Thanks for the input
Free WiFi?
No more paying for internet?
Pyro Panda Lets not get it twisted. SpaceX is most definitely going to charge for the pleasure of having WiFi everywhere on the planet. If they don’t, then Elon Musk will go down in the history books as the man who gave undeveloped and developing nations access to the internet.
My best guess is that us in developed nations will pay a rate while those in developing and undeveloped nations pay close to nothing.
Joseph Demetrio You’re probably right
He'll do it for the data
One manned ships, so i can leave, thank you! ;)
Peter is great, but talking about small rocket revolution with maker of small rocket...
Don't rockets destroy the ecosystem with their fuel when they explode?
Its very small