Drone footage from Rocket Like a Hurricane launch for NASA TROPICS

Two NASA CubeSats designed to study tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are in orbit after successfully launching on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket on 8 May 2023.

[dufkers]

Prettiest launch site in the world. Nice to see Rocket Lab doing so well.

[DerKrawallkeks]

Imagine if they could launch two rockets side by side, like 100m apart, and film the entire launch up to orbit, including stage separation

[carl]

Not sure I can think of more beautiful launch footage than this.

[maiplacidus]

Epic! Please every launch. I’ll probably watch this many times like the stage separation video, addictive viewing!

[chllspace]

My brain registered this as KSP footage for the first few seconds.

[harticus]

Beautiful!! So happy to be a shareholder!

[darylneal]

Great launch video. Perhaps the best I've seen.

[simongeard]

Whomever came up with the mission name "Rocket like a Hurricane"... well done.

[EANIIX]

Could you please upload more isolated launch views? Awesome!

[mikeybhoutex]

I'm probably 'right' in believing this couldn't happen, buuuut.... if you could fly the drone higher and then watch the rocket go up from the pad like that, that'd be really kinda nifty I'd think. Not that this wasn't, great footage, nifty shot!

But again, understand if you can't!

/ooh... you could make it a second drone...
//OOOH. You could get a swarm that surrounds the rocket and do a 3d movie of it in bullet time or something! :D

[Austin-gcpn]

It's still old technology we've been using since the 1940s nothing new