Why wasn't this covered on our media?? Never mind, I know why........
They just don't care and saw no commercial advantage to breaking the story. They just missed the next great technological advance for our world - becoming a true space-faring civilization.
This is the first rocket program in the southern hemisphere. Rocket Lab have developed a whole lot of new composite components, fuel and coatings and are getting aerospace enquiries from around the world. They have the whole southern hemisphere sounding rocket market to themselves, plus a lot of interest from the northern hemisphere, their costs are so radically lower. Very clever stuff. Watch Peter Beck's talk on Youtube.
Why wasn't this covered on our media?? Never mind, I know why........
They just don't care and saw no commercial advantage to breaking the story. They just missed the next great technological advance for our world - becoming a true space-faring civilization.
uncleezra1 1 year ago
It is great that NZ can do this without spending the billions, it took us (USA) to do the same thing.
microwizard 1 year ago
Have you thought about ramjet boosters? Great work!!!!
NZRocketBoyz 1 year ago
I know why you haven't done this yet but when will you put up a satellite into orbit ?
MOUNTAINBANSHEE1 1 year ago
Why does it say atea 1 on the side ?
hamstanz 2 years ago
Musicman53: the sonic boom travels in the same direction as the rocket. In this case nobody heard anything.
Atevra 2 years ago
On a more positive note; you guys rock! That was a fabo effort and you definitely deserve the next round at the pub.
Kiwifrank 2 years ago
Congratulations on the successful launch and incident-free flight of Ātea-1 today!
Best wishes for the future of your venture.
Djinnjaha 2 years ago
This is the first rocket program in the southern hemisphere. Rocket Lab have developed a whole lot of new composite components, fuel and coatings and are getting aerospace enquiries from around the world. They have the whole southern hemisphere sounding rocket market to themselves, plus a lot of interest from the northern hemisphere, their costs are so radically lower. Very clever stuff. Watch Peter Beck's talk on Youtube.
musicman53 2 years ago