Reentry from space to Earth like you've never seen it before. Varda Space Industries, together with our partners at Rocket Lab and Southern Launch, reentered the first commercial space capsule to land on Australian soil on Feb. 27, 2025.
0:00 Intro
1:47 Rocket Lab Intro
4:10 Southern Launch Intro
6:31 Final orbital maneuver
6:52 How Rocket Lab Powers Reentry
9:25 The W-2 payloads with VP Brandi Sippel
11:50 Capsule separation
12:30 What's a Varda?
18:06 Earth views
18:47 Atmospheric Reentry
19:40 Going Mach 29 with Head of Analysis Marat Kulakhmetov
24:42 Capsule visible from the ground, chutes deploy
25:29 Landing!
26:03 Welcome to Koonibba with Southern Launch
29:53 Recovering W-2