"Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. You can watch and listen in the window below, courtesy of NASA. When the crew is off duty, you can enjoy live views of Earth from Space. Hear conversations between the crew and mission controllers on Earth and watch them work inside the U.S. The ‘Love At First Insight’ mission follows two previous ocean splashdown recovery missions the ‘Return to Sender’ mission in November 2020, and the ‘Running Out of Toes’ mission in May 2021.Ī livestream of the launch and real-time updates of recovery operations for ‘Love At First Insight’ will be available on Rocket Lab’s social media channels and website.įind out what the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are up to by tuning in to the "ISS Live" broadcast. A team of Rocket Lab engineers and technicians will again be stationed at sea with their purpose-built Ocean Recovery and Capture Apparatus (ORCA) to retrieve the stage from the ocean and return it to Rocket Lab’s production complex in New Zealand for analysis and inspection. Electron also features improvements to the first stage heat shield which protects its nine Rutherford engines while they endure up to 2200 ☌ heat and incredible pressure on the descent back to Earth. The ‘Love At First Insight’ mission will also include new recovery hardware developments to Electron including an advanced parachute to be deployed from the first stage at a higher-altitude, allowing for a slower drift back to Earth to test communications and tracking for future aerial recovery. Rocket Lab will be tracking the stage’s descent from space and as it approaches 19,000 ft (5.7 km) from the ocean surface, a helicopter will be dispatched to conduct reconnaissance of the returning booster. I’m excited to take what we learn from this launch and put it into practice with aerial capture missions in future.” It’s ambitious, but with each recovery mission we’ve iterated and refined the hardware and processes to make the impossible ordinary. Now we’re gearing up for the next stage – preparing to use a helicopter to catch a rocket as it descends to Earth from space. “We’ve perfected Electron’s controlled descent, demonstrated flawless parachute deployment, and successfully plucked stages from the ocean. “As one of only two companies to recover an orbital-class booster from space, we’ve proven it’s possible to make Electron the world’s first orbital-class reusable small launch vehicle,” says Peter Beck, Rocket Lab founder and CEO. The mission’s primary objective is to deploy two Earth-observation satellites for global monitoring company BlackSky, with the secondary objective to splash down and recover Electron’s first stage to further validate Rocket Lab’s recovery operations and hardware. The ‘Love At First Insight’ mission is scheduled to lift-off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a 14-day launch window that opens on NovemUTC. The helicopter will not attempt a mid-air capture for this mission but will test communications and tracking to refine the concept of operations (CONOPS) for future Electron aerial capture. The mission will be Rocket Lab’s third ocean recovery of an Electron stage however, it will be the first time a helicopter will be stationed in the recovery zone around 200 nautical miles offshore to track and visually observe a descending stage in preparation for future aerial capture attempts. 19 October – Rocket Lab USA, Inc (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: RKLB) has today revealed it will attempt a controlled ocean splashdown and recovery of the first stage of an Electron rocket during the company’s next launch in November. It will be used for practice only, Rocket Lab has said. A helicopter will be on the scene, but will not attempt to capture the booster in mid-air. Rocket Lab will attempt to recover its Electron first stage from the ocean after launch in its latest test to reuse the rockets. Today's launch will lift off from Rocket Lab's launch site on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand, where the local time will be Thursday afternoon. Rocket Lab's launch webcast will begin about 20 minutes before liftoff and you can watch that here and at Rocket Lab's website. 15, and you can watch it live online, courtesy of Rocket Lab.
A Rocket Lab Electron booster will launch two Earth observation satellites for the company BlackSky no earlier than Nov.
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