Rocket Lab - Electron / “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” (StriX-1) patch.
Sept. 16, 2022
Electron carrying “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” (StriX-1) liftoff
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle launched the “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” mission, to deliver the StriX-1 satellite to low Earth orbit, from Launch Complex 1, Pad B, on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, on 15 September 2022, at 20:38 UTC (16 September, at 08:38 NZT).
Electron launches “The Owl Spreads Its Wings” (StriX-1)
The mission is Rocket Lab’s 30th Electron launch overall. StriX-1 is Synspective’s first commercial satellite for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation to deliver imagery that can detect millimeter-level changes to the Earth’s surface from space, independent of weather conditions on Earth and at any time of the day or night.
Strix-1 satellite
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