Archimedes Test Stand | Stennis Space Center

Hear from Nickey Raines - Manager of Rocket Lab's Stennis Test Complex as the team ramp up for our Archimedes Hot Fire campaign.
More info: www.rocketlabusa.com/launch/n...

[@kurtisvankampen]

Keep em coming. I am a loyal investor, not large, only 6000 shares to date, but I keep an automatic daily $50 buy order in to buy more shares, every day, no matter where the price is! Keep it up and keep us informed!

[@xlynx9]

That's large by my standards 😅

[@sandbridgekid4121]

I have 100 share, buy 1 or 2 a month. I live in a part of Central Virginia were we can see the Wallops Island launches 120 miles to the North East.

[@sandbridgekid4121]

More stable than Tesla.

[@hxi7141]

23500 shares here!

[@marktucker208]

@@hxi7141 The fuck? why are you buying shares in Nasa, wtf are you getting in return?

[@boomshanka8743]

Fire it up, Sir Peter!

[@vipondiu]

2:05 Test Stand A-3 always reminded me of a cathedral. It easily sits at the top of the visually-pleasing ranking of rocket engine test stands.

[@ajames]

Put a chicken just far enough away so that when the test is done it’s cooked perfectly. I’d eat it. You do the math, I’ll bring the appetite Sir Peter Beck!

[@rafaela.4061]

YES! YES! Go ROCKETLAAAAAB! 🔥🔥🔥

[@BayAreaMotorcycleCommuting]

Dude in the bottom-right at 1:59 is completely fed up with his coworkers' shenanigans

[@rocketman1969]

haha

[@wyattb3138]

Good eye

[@darkwood777]

C'mon people, let's get this over with so I can get back to work on my report!

[@Mottbox]

That's hilairious lmao - I wonder what he's so sour about haha

[@investingmax3202]

Can't wait for this one!

[@Whatthechuckttv]

Love watching all the launches and gains being made in space exploration not just by Rocket Lab but by ULA, SpaceX, Boeing and all the others moving us forward. But I'm especially proud to see Stennis Space Center in my home state of Mississippi playing such a major roll in all of this since 1961. I only wish there were MORE videos from Stennis as they test these incredible engines. Keep up the amazing work, Rocket lab and thank you for choosing Stennis for your rocket engine testing needs.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

great job RL!

[@cyberface3000]

Let’s gooooooo!!! 🚀🔥✨

[@Chip_in]

❤ Rocket Lab ⛳

[@RamjetMetalDetecting]

Nice update. More videos please. We love what ya doing. Peace 🦘

[@sandbridgekid4121]

In 10 years, Rocket Lab will be competing with SpaceX at all levels.

[@EarthCreature.]

Wake up from your Musk cult. SpaceX will never meet Adtemis milestones nonetheless be anything other than a waste in capital. Rocket Lab is already superior to SpaceX both functionally as a company & vertically in its 5 year horizon

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

Nah, by that time spaceX will have moved forward to full re-use. However rocketlab will have successfully outpaced everyone other than spaceX. And well they will comfortably hold N°2 and that is no small feat

[@sandbridgekid4121]

@@mobiuscoreindustries Not at this rate of iteration.

[@mr.g937]

Unlikely. RocketLab doesn't have the capitalization to punch in the weight class of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and ULA. They'll most likely compete with Relativity, Stoke, etc. in the medium lift space.

[@easyebs5841]

@@mr.g937it was kinda unlikely for rocketlab to even get here though no? I think from beginning people always looked at rocketlab as unlikely from New Zealand but they always punch above their weight. Rocketlab brings more results for less capital than all those companies you mentioned

[@seriousmaran9414]

Looks damn good!

[@StingerNSW]

Go Rocket lab 🔥

[@darkwood777]

This thing shakes the hell out of my house and causes cracks in the sheetrock.

[@JB-dv7ew]

Well if it really bothers you that much you might as well get paid for it and buy shares!

[@oebus]

Nice 🎉

[@paulsto6516]

Go Rocket Lab !!!

[@sam808sam]

WHEN IS THE TEST?

[@maku5289]

wen Breath Fire 🔥

[@seriousmaran9414]

We need our burgers cooked! 😊

[@user-if2iy3ye3t]

I heard that Musk is keeping Rocket Lab in check with cheap prices. But don't give in. I support you.

[@palantirresearch]

🔥

[@Papershields001]

The good guys of spaceflight!

[@Phillhaddad]

Light er Up!

[@zhouyou28]

Let's go❤

[@laborspy]

Let it rip!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@IvorMektin1701]

It has a turbo pump

[@11305205219]

*When to the moon ? 🚀🌕*

[@saumyacow4435]

Umm.. the photos from some weeks ago with Archimedes on the test stand.. didn't show it fully installed/configured?

[@ugurozer1956]

👏👏👏❤️

[@sufficient__]

You can see the water tower for relativity's stand in the background lol

[@RoBear-xo6zw]

A big fat Baby Huey version of Beck😂😂😂😂

[@donaldtrammel2475]

Zip-zam-zoom!!

[@paullangford8179]

Not the worst music in the background, but definitely in the running!

[@thisguyhere85]

Show me the fire!

[@ezp721]

Give a comparison example on how smart one should be to be accepted as a software developer in this company?

[@fuhishva]

Most likely you do not need high intelligence, only domain knowledge. For navigation systems in rockets you would need to understand kinematics, trajectory optimization, and sensor fusion algorithms to calculate the position, velocity, and orientation of the vehicle. For communication protocols you should probably know concepts like error detection and correction codes, modulation schemes, and network topologies to ensure reliable transmission of data between different components in the spacecraft.

[@ezp721]

@@fuhishva Great answer, thank you!

[@WillofNewZealand]

But is nasa involved? Lock all positions up very tightly. Watch out they give the money to you not a random they know is not you. Example does nasa own 3d print pizza license? No. Does beehex? No. Commercial gain made by beehex in breach of real owners license terms? Yes. = piracy? Yes. Do our ai bots know? Yes. Does googles ai bot know? Yes. Did nasa then give beehex another million dollars? Yes. So as a member of the Comunity of ball park 30 million licensed things I boo hard. Booo. Jip is a kind of curse? Yes. I have very unusual skills and luck. Do all tek designers and there supporters investors want to support nasa with more important tek or trust them with anything now? What are you frigging kidding me of course not. Can we throw support to China as the opposing player? Yes. Has that happened? Yes. Is more going to? Yes. Want to see nasa go to moon? Definitely not, Utterly totally not. We are looking to the biggest most powerful players to protect us from these types? Yes protect us. From? Nasa. Qualifications? I can only guess to sign a long devil in detail contract to silence you. Integrity? Where. If I were rocket lab I'd get new friends or do it yourself. More harm than good is an old idea about when something has gone bad. Seems a forgotten saying ay Peter. A small tek mistreated openly publicly. Does not fly with me. There's way more important tek than a pizza but a taste showed us who we were dealing with. A taste showed wether they can be trusted with anything let alone anything important. A rock solid boo from us. Peter you seem like a nice man. Get better friends. My 3c opinions.

[@easyebs5841]

Can you put the rocketlab bears behind the engine exhaust to burn them up in the test fire?

[@andreasbirkmann2511]

RocketLab is sooo sexy!

[@ballerlocs]

Hi 👋

[@Vacra_Graha]

Glad to see the effort progressing to maximize RKLB shareholder value. No one disagrees NEUTRON medium-lift rocket, 13,000 kg to LEO, is where it's at for Rocket Lab, and ARCHIMEDES engine is the key. More players are becoming aware of FIREFLY's emerging, medium-lift rocket, 16,000 kg to LEO, the ANTARES 330 (1st stage) with 7x MIRANDA engines (already hot faired), with MLV 2nd stage) vehicle and a1x VIRA engine, a vacuum version of MIRANDA. Good to know the competition, likely to effect the RKLB share price. No, FIREFLY is a private company, but likely to go IPO in 2025, after a successful demo flight. Already FIREFLY ALPHA small-lift, 1,030 kg to LEO, is taking away launches from ELECTRON, with first launches by Dec 2023, and 6 launches in the remainder of 2024, and just this week, a deal inked with Lockheed Martin for 25 ALPHA launches starting in 2024 to 2029.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

"Constellation" is not "Historic" sir,.. That would be Mecury, Gemini, Apollo and The Shuttle. I think we've all got confidece that Rocket Labs and Neutron will go a lot further, higher, faster then Constellation.

[@transzendenz1774]

still no hotfire

[@CapitalCrestC]

@Rocket lab please cut this annoying music in your videos.

[@hextoken]

That engine is way too complicated in design. Definitely needs massive streamlining.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Might be due to wanting every bit of data for the development

[@nickskorner6009]

Unless you design engines for SpaceX, I doubt your comment holds any value.

[@Mottbox]

You understand 80% of the "complexity" you're pointing out is all the tubing for monitoring data during a hot fire test right?

[@bwjclego]

This is what development engines look like. Extra pipes and cables *everywhere* to look at every possible pressure, temperature, etc.

[@simongeard4824]

@@bwjclego Yep. Contrast the early Raptor engines - spaghetti cabling and plumbing everywhere - with the current production hardware.

[@WillofNewZealand]

Was cool until nasas name got a mention, then went from cheers to boos. Watch your back not the engine

[@marktucker208]

They didnt even fire it up. Its a massive grift and you are all paying for it

[@Cardroid]

Just fire the damn rocket engine.. what a waste of my time watching this video!

[@theglassseadragon]

Another investor here. In large for some time! Not selling one red share! Come-on Neutron!

[@liminalhoarder]