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Electron | The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
Rocket LabRocket Lab Launch Complex 1A — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
- Weather probability
- 95% go
StriX-α is a demonstration mission for Japanese company Synspective which plans to deploy a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites. For this mission, Rocket Lab will utilize a custom expanded fairing to encompass Synspective’s wide-body satellite – the first use of the expanded fairing options that Rocket Lab recently introduced.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Electron
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
webcasts
launch site
- Pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Location
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Country
- NZL
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Coordinates
- -39.2628, 177.8645