Not worth watching, but AVUM went haywire on the Vega launch tonight. Launch is at ~39m if you can spare a couple minutes.
Go watch Rocket Lab now! "Gabe Newell, president of Valve, the video game company behind the Half-Life series and game marketplace Steam... Newell decided to stay in New Zealand at the start of the pandemic and is donating a dollar to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship Children’s Hospital for every viewer who watches the satellite launch livestream or the online recording within 24 hours of launch."
"Stage 1 is under parachute!!!" "Splash down!!" https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck Rocketlab twitter: Splashdown of Electron's first stage confirmed! Recovery ops are underway and we'll bring you more soon.
I was so used to delays on this launch that I did not believe they were gonna go tonight. Serves me right! Replay it is. I love Roasty The Waste-y Rocket!
The audio gave us some good deep rumble and crackling for a while after liftoff. Worth getting the headset for. That was a nice looking plume at night:
The Delta IV Heavy fireball launch sequence is not quite as impressive as the Starship fireball landing sequence.