can be on standby and ready to take a payload and get it into orbit with just one or two days notice. it takes four firefly designed reaver engines to get that rocket off the ground. and it s the test of one of those that we are here to film today. is this your baby? or is this one of your babies? this is one of my babies. 0k. sporting her lucky launch shoes, brigitte 0akes will be studying the rocket test in great detail. from an engine perspective, we want to make sure that our engines start up healthy, steady state that is healthy, and we re getting the thrust and power levels that we need. and a lot of that, most of all of that, we can be able to test on the ground, because those are the things that we want to make sure are healthy in orbit. what s the height of it? is it pretty muchjust a horizontal flame? it doesn t go too high? now, we ve brought along
and a lot of that, most of all of that, we can be able to test on the ground, because those are the things that we want to make sure are healthy in orbit. what s the height of it? is it pretty muchjust a horizontal flame? it doesn t go too high? now, we ve brought along a friend to film the test. remember gav? he is one half of the slow mo guys, who helped me to get egg all over my face a couple of weeks ago, and he s going to be capturing the action at 2,000 frames per second. that s 80 times slower than real life. the only thing is, he, like the rest of us, has to be hundreds of metres away when the rocket ignites, so i m going to leave him to set the remote triggers and work out how his camera s not going to be incinerated. and we will come back later in the programme to watch a rocket ignite like you ve never seen before. nasa has been putting rockets into space since the 50s and, increasingly, it s been working with companies like firefly
rocket off the ground. and it s the test of one of those that we are here to film today. is this your baby? or is this one of your babies? this is one of my babies. 0k. sporting her lucky launch shoes, brigitte 0akes will be studying the rocket test in great detail. from an engine perspective, we want to make sure that our engines start up healthy, steady state that is healthy and we re getting the thrust and power levels that we need. and a lot of that, most of all of that, we can be able to test on the ground, because those are the things that we want to make sure are healthy in orbit. what s the height of it? is it pretty muchjust a horizontal flame? it doesn t go too high? now, we ve brought along a friend to film the test. remember gav? he is one half of the slow mo guys, who helped me to get egg all over my face a couple of weeks ago, and he s going to be capturing the action at 2,000 frames per second. that s 80 times slower than real life.
reaver engines to get that rocket off the ground. and it s the test of one of those that we are here to film today. is this your baby? or is this one of your babies? this is one of my babies. 0k. sporting her lucky launch shoes, brigitte 0akes will be studying the rocket test in great detail. from an engine perspective, we want to make sure that our engines start up healthy, steady state that is healthy and we re getting the thrust and power levels that we need. and a lot of that, most of all of that, we can be able to test on the ground, because those are the things that we want to make sure are healthy in orbit. what s the height of it? is it pretty muchjust a horizontal flame? it doesn t go too high? now, we ve brought along a friend to film the test. remember gav? he is one half of the slow mo guys,
a payload and get it into orbit with just one or two days notice. it takes four firefly designed reaver engines to get that rocket off the ground. and it s the test of one of those that we are here to film today. is this your baby? or is this one of your babies? this is one of my babies. 0k. sporting her lucky launch shoes, brigitte 0akes will be studying the rocket test in great detail. from an engine perspective, we want to make sure that our engines start up healthy, steady state that is healthy and we re getting the thrust and power levels that we need. and a lot of that, most of all of that, we can be able to test on the ground, because those are the things that we want to make sure are healthy in orbit. what s the height of it? is it pretty muchjust a horizontal flame? it doesn t go too high? now, we ve brought along a friend to film the test. remember gav?