Comments on: Watch Rocket Lab launch and attempt to capture first stage with helicopter https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/ Tue, 03 May 2022 08:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321265 Tue, 03 May 2022 08:19:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321265 t-dub noted: “They really need to up their game on the video they take.”

I think this was a thread on the forum a few years ago. There is a developing field for space launch video. And those who know how to do it.

]]> By: t-dub https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321061 Tue, 03 May 2022 00:21:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321061 The video just showed a brief glimpse of the capture hook and rope kinda starting to entangle with the first stage parachute line then it went out of view. They really need to up their game on the video they take. When the announcer said they had caught it I took her word for it, so if I was wrong I apologize. Too bad they had to cut it loose if that’s what happened. Hopefully some more video or picture evidence will come out soon to verify. If I didn’t have to go to the lab right now I would have more time to investigate this but an MRI machine awaits my presence.

]]> By: sippon_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321058 Tue, 03 May 2022 00:20:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321058 Tom,

They announced it on the live feed. The camera angle was not great.

At 52:450, if you put it in slow-mo, the yellow line is snagged. I am guessing the camera was pointing straight down.
As the aircraft flew forward the drag pulled it back out of view.

I too was watching hoping to catch it.

Toward the end, before they went into the payload deployment sequence she says they he dropped it for safety.

It is kind of funny. One of their earlier missions was called “Pics or it didn’t happen”.

]]> By: Tom https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321052 Tue, 03 May 2022 00:05:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321052 Call me the Doubting Thomas but I have not yet seen the booster capture image or a positive announcement from Rocket Lab that they caught it. That they were very close is plain to see but no swinging booster images have crossed my screen yet. Does anyone have a link?

Thomas

]]> By: sippon_bourbon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321048 Mon, 02 May 2022 23:57:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321048 Update. They are saying they caught it, but the pilot had some different/odd load characteristics. For safety reasons he cut it loose near the vessel they had staged just for that reason.

So. Partial success on the catch.

]]> By: Willi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321021 Mon, 02 May 2022 23:15:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321021 RKLB is up half a buck to $8 a share in after market trading after after a claimed recovery of the rocket’s first stage. I say “claimed” because it wasn’t obvious from the video that capture was successful.

]]> By: t-dub https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/watch-rocket-lab-launch-and-attempt-to-capture-first-stage-with-helicopter/#comment-1321018 Mon, 02 May 2022 23:07:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=84407#comment-1321018 They caught it!

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