New Zealand launches ATEA-1 Rocket into space for first time

[antdude]

Nice! I am a bit late. So what happened after this?

[antonyarnanova]

Did they ever find it? it went up yes... but as far as I know they never found the "Head" containing all the recorded info / total height / speed etc, was it ever verified?? dam I use to make rockets out of firecrackers lol

[JennyGetsMoney]

faggot newzealanders

[Rocksolidvb]

@JennyGetsMoney mmmm girl your bad, wuts ya numba babe

[Collserra]

@JennyGetsMoney You pathetic fucking troll. Get a life bitch!

[jcoogan15]

Yes. That is what I comment them for. Are you dumb. I comment them because I like them, and I am a fan and it makes me mad when people who don't like them waste their time commenting them when they have nothing good to say about it. Kay?

[jcoogan15]

Okay? That's cool.

[vincent834]

My grandmother is alive and you're still a jackass. plus those kinds of insults are jsut disguisting,literally.

[shineco1]

done like true kiwis in a shed on a farm in the middle o nowhere

[jprahhal]

i wish they would have put a camera on that, that would have been amazingly fast.

[Tat2b]

you f@rkin BEAUTY hahaha

[tuber094615]

I wonder how long before they are able to put something in to orbit, eg micro-satellites. It is at least only up from here!

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

Wish they had a couple of sheep next to it when it took off.

They would have run like crazy!

[EUROSUN1]

Sure he must be the biggest NERD ever. But who cares, very cool achievement.

[Atevra]

Rocksolidvb, why do you think that TV3 will be deleting this from their site in 5 days? :S

[roguemale57]

You know what this means-Australia will now have to launch in retaliation.

[mattathm]

Good on us NZ'ers for havin a crack but it makes me laugh at our 3rd world effort on farm with Barry crumps hilux in a fucking tin shed with a noisey generator muffling the audio launching a fucking rocket on an overcast day! Cmon guys lift ya game.

[Atevra]

3rd world effort? why don't you give them some more money and it will be like what you see governments doing in other country's.

Whats wrong with a hilux? very reliable and will take them anywhere on the island.

No where else in NZ to launch it apart from a farm.

[nicksynnz]

@Atevra Sorry Waiouru

[Atevra]

Well Waiouru comes with its own problems not to mention is a military operations area, if permission could be had for amateur and professional based launches then so be it :)

[nicksynnz]

@Atevra I expect a response tomorrow from them. We have a rocket with an N or O motor which will go up to about 40 000ft. I will let you know if they let us. Cheers

[nicksynnz]

@mattathm You know nothing about rocket science so you should not speak.

This is the NZ way...the rocket was sophisticated but smallish..new technology. This was a test launch for new systems and altitude as well. Notice there is no smoke behind the rocket like NASA and European Space Agencies rockets have... think about it dude.

[mculliton123]

Well Done.

[dobberdoss]

you fucking beauty says it all. Congrats guys. When can i invest?

[panzr]

Haha...forget Iran and North Korea, it's New Zealand that America should be afraid of... can you spell ICBM?. Headlines read 'NZ enters Space-Race' ...too bad that race ended forty years ago. "Was that an earthquake I just felt?" ..."no that was NASA rolling on the floor laughing it's arse off"

[panzr]

Christ, I bet the Dalai-Lama is laughing his arse off

[nicksynnz]

@panzr why would they laugh, their technology is old; this is new. If you are a size freak then you are wrong when it comes to rockets: smaller is better. They will no doubt be knocking on Peter Becks door: he is a Genius.

[dobberdoss]

actually Nasa are fully supportive of this venture and this is a business venture, NOT a space race! knockers like you should just go live in Aussie and stay there

[Collserra]

@panzr STOP FUCKING TROLLING THIS FUCKING VIDEO YOU FAG, AAARGH, YOU IDIOT THIS ROCKET MAKES SUB-ORBITAL SPACEFLIGHT CHEAPER THAN IT USED TO BE THERFORE THIS ROCKET IS A VERY GOOD DEVELOPMENT IN REUSABLE SUB-ORBITAL ROCKETS, SO FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!

[basilbrushnz]

"you fucken beauty", LMAO, NASA eat your heart out.

[fromtheabove]

hahahaha only in new zealand would the countries first space rocket launch look so unprofessional and be launched by a couple of guys in jeans and a t-shirt

[nicksynnz]

@fromtheabove Crikey I launch HP rockets with the launch rod on a strainer post.

[Atevra]

why is it unprofessional?

[fromtheabove]

dude dont get all upset i was just jokin around... im a kiwi myself. geez man no need to get so serious

[marmiteyone]

"You F...........g beauty!!!!

[skinostra]

LOL America spends BILLIONS of dollars to get rockets into space. NZ does it using a Gen set ,Garden shed and a beut background .Go fellas Go.

[illuminatedtiger]

It costs on average twenty-thousand dollars to send one KILOGRAM of matter into space - if you want to put an Astronaut or even a Satellite into space it adds up very quickly. It's a great achievement for our country but our "garden shed" kiwi ingenuity is nothing compared to their decades of research and massive budgets.

[datemonthyear]

new zealand makes history. again.

[brayt0n]

on threee news ;)