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Speaker 1: The information provided in this program is of a general

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Speaker 1: professional to suit your individual circumstances. Welcome to Wallops Island, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: We're giving you the first look at rocket Lab's new

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Speaker 1: US launch site, where it's next rocket, Neutron is set.

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Speaker 2: To take flight. Let's go well. I feel special to

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Speaker 2: share this moment with you. This is the coolest thing ever.

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Speaker 1: We're inside neutrons soon to be launch.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a massive Hello, this is the water tank.

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Speaker 1: It's the Neutrons happening.

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Speaker 1: We're on our way to NASA's Wallops Island flight facility,

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Speaker 1: where rocket Lab is preparing its next rocket, Neutron. When

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Speaker 1: I was planning on coming here to Wallops at this

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Speaker 1: much progress has been made. We're taking you on a

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Speaker 1: with this integration and control facility set up for Electron.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Rocket Lab. Thank you so much. Yeah, excited

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Speaker 1: Co. Aaron Kaiper's is Rocket Labs director of Test and

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Speaker 1: Launch in the US. He's been in this room for

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Speaker 2: This is mission control. This is where we support the

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Speaker 1: And then also you have the software which is kind

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Speaker 2: Cool of course. And then today what you see up

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Speaker 1: This is Rocket Labs existing US launchpad, Launch Complex two.

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Speaker 2: the coldest thing.

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Speaker 1: This is the most badass thing I've made the same

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Speaker 1: of my life.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, whoa, this is so cold, so so Madison.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to show you the launch mount and talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about what we do here. The rocket

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Speaker 2: comes in vertical irem sorry, horizontal, and we we raise

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Speaker 2: then when that's all complete, we rotate the whole launch

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Speaker 2: mount structure vertical we go through our loading operations, and

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Speaker 2: then some of the key things to look at. Here

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Speaker 2: are the propeller lines that feed the rocket. Those lines

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Speaker 2: connect at the top of the strong back to the rocket,

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Speaker 2: the miracle lines. These towers. Yes, you're telling me, these

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Speaker 2: are for lightning.

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Speaker 1: So these towers have to be taller than electronics in

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Speaker 1: case there's a lightning strike.

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Speaker 2: That's right, So it strikes these, not the rocket, correct, Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's a lightning protection forward the rocket.

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Speaker 1: A taste was underway on the front of the launch pad,

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Speaker 1: so we could only film the back of it where

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Speaker 1: the rocket locks onto before launch to see all of

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Speaker 1: the parts up close.

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Speaker 2: So this is the water line. This is the water line.

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Speaker 2: This is the line that supplies the water for the

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Speaker 2: acoustic suppression ring and the rainbirds who are when the

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Speaker 2: rocket takes off.

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Speaker 1: So it comes down from the water tower through that

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Speaker 1: blue pipe.

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Speaker 2: Into the ring, into the ring. That's right, very simple.

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Speaker 1: This is the ring where the water flows through to

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Speaker 1: suppress the sound as electron fires.

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Speaker 2: This is insane. I want to hug it. I'm a sweets.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to sound standing on a rocket

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Speaker 1: launching platform, touching and.

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Speaker 2: What did you say? The eficial return of this one.

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Speaker 2: This is acoustic suppression ring asp as sorry.

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Speaker 1: Correct, So LC two is dedicated for electron and hayse missions.

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Speaker 1: But for you to show on me, Aaron, it's way

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Speaker 1: too small for neutron. That baby's going to launch next door.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and ALC three can we go see it?

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Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go launch.

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Speaker 1: Complex three is still under construction, but this is the

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Speaker 1: first time anyone outside the company has filmed its progress.

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Speaker 1: Less than a year ago, this entire site was covered

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Speaker 2: Now it's concrete and fuel tanks. It's huge, it is

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Speaker 2: there's more to come. This is two ninety thousand gallon

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Speaker 2: liquid oxygen tanks and that put the other one to

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Speaker 2: shade it does those are three thousand gallons. In comparison,

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Speaker 2: these are ninety thousand each. We'll be adding more in

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Speaker 2: the future as the program grows. We'll have equivalent two

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Speaker 2: ninety thousand gallon LNG tanks on the other side of

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Speaker 2: the pad very soon. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And this is just pure fuel for the rocket, isn't

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Speaker 1: it It is.

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Speaker 2: It's a hell of a lot of fuel. It is

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Speaker 2: ninety thousand gallons, so that's lots the same as ELSIE

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Speaker 2: two correct, But.

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Speaker 1: Isn't the combustion make's going to be different on neutron

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Speaker 1: to allow for more reusability.

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Speaker 2: It is. We're going to be using oxidizer the liquid oxygen,

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Speaker 2: same as we do at ELSA two on neutron, but

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Speaker 2: the fuel is different. We'll be using methane as the

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Speaker 2: fuel on neutron as on electron we use caro. And

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Speaker 2: how does that allow for reusability?

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Speaker 1: I'm aware that methol locks is cleaner as opposed to

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Speaker 1: kerosene with electron that requires sort of being cleaned out

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Speaker 1: of the engine.

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Speaker 2: It burns cleaner, and that way when the engine, when

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Speaker 2: the rocket lands, we capture it, it'll be a cleaner

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Speaker 2: engine that we can return the fleet.

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Speaker 1: The eighty six meters high water tower is the most

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Speaker 1: obvious structure that signals preparations are well underway.

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Speaker 2: All right, So this is where Pete was standing in

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Speaker 2: here and took a picture. So this is so cold,

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Speaker 2: So do if you want? You can stand in front?

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Speaker 2: Can I get in? You can get in? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be rusty. Do you want to know that's

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Speaker 2: a cat? Get hello? This is the water tank. That's

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Speaker 2: the water tank. So how much did you say two

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Speaker 2: hundred gallons of water? Two hundred thousand thousand over two

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Speaker 2: over two hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Without water, the vibrations created from the sound as she

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Speaker 1: fires would be strong enough to destroy the rocket and

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Speaker 1: the launch pad.

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Speaker 2: Neutrons happening by the looks through it. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the foundations for that launch pad are already down.

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Speaker 2: A hole is being dug and concrete poured in. So

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Speaker 2: how is the rocket going to sit on this thing?

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Speaker 2: So the rocket is going to sit on this foundation.

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Speaker 2: This foundation is supported by piles. And then on top

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Speaker 2: of this big concrete struck. Sure that's reinforced the anchor bolts.

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Speaker 2: There's four anchorbol points where the legs will sit for

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Speaker 2: the rocket. Eventually those legs will meet up to a ring.

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Speaker 2: And then on top of the ring is where neutron

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Speaker 2: will sit. Can we go inside there? Let's go inside?

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Speaker 1: Okay, cool, We're inside neutrons soon to.

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Speaker 2: Be launch pad. Launch pad.

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Speaker 1: That's right, it's a massive This one could be a

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Speaker 1: swimming pool, like an.

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Speaker 2: Enormous Olympic sized swimming pool. Erin and we look straight up,

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Speaker 2: we'll be looking up the straight the back end of

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Speaker 2: the rocket. We'll be looking at rocket engines very soon?

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Speaker 2: How soon? Very soon?

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Speaker 1: If I can ask you about the readiness, it's clearly

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Speaker 1: still a construction site now. The foundations are always sort

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Speaker 1: of part of the hardest part, right, that's right. When

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Speaker 1: do you actually think this is going to be complete,

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Speaker 1: of us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. We have a lot of phases that

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Speaker 2: we go through. As you mentioned, the construction part is

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Speaker 2: probably the longest phase of getting it started, getting them

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Speaker 2: permitting and getting everything in ground. Now that we're building up,

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Speaker 2: we have all of the other pieces in fabrication right now,

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Speaker 2: so as the it's kind of phase together. So as

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Speaker 2: this concrete is built, we designed all of that. It's

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Speaker 2: being cut right now and it will be on the

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Speaker 2: way here shortly and we'll start erecting all of the

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Speaker 2: launch mount, all the components, the commodity gases, tanks are

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Speaker 2: here for two LNG is on the way. All those

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Speaker 2: phase process, and you're absolutely correct the construction takes a while,

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Speaker 2: and that's been the longest pole. Now we can start

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Speaker 2: to see a lot of movement in terms of what's

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Speaker 2: being constructed on the surface.

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Speaker 1: But you have actually started building from the ground up.

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Speaker 1: The foundation's a key, were standing on it, and this

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Speaker 1: pot is ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah. So yeah, we get the hard parts kind

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Speaker 1: Stands well, play STAPs, why back way back by stop

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