Rocket Lab Successfully Launches 45th Electron Mission, 4th for Longtime Partner Synspective
March 12 2024 - 1:11PM
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the
Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems,
today launched its 45th Electron rocket, successfully deploying a
fourth synthetic aperture radar satellite to Synspective’s
Earth-observation constellation.
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Rocket Lab's 45th Electron mission, "Owl
Night Long," lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New
Zealand, carrying a satellite for Japanese Earth-observation
company Synspective, on March 13 at 4:03 a.m. NZDT. (Photo credit:
Rocket Lab)
“Owl Night Long,” a dedicated mission for Synspective, launched
from Pad B at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 04:03
NZDT March 13, 2024 (15:03 UTC, March 12). The mission delivered a
single spacecraft, the StriX-3 satellite, to a 561km Sun
Synchronous Orbit, where it joined Synspective’s growing
constellation.
Rocket Lab has been the sole launch provider for Synspective’s
constellation, previously delivering three satellites across
launches in September 2022, February 2022, and December 2020.
Rocket Lab will launch two more missions for Synspective as part of
a multi-launch agreement signed in 2023.
“Owl Night Long” was Rocket Lab’s third Electron mission of
2024. Rocket Lab’s next launch is scheduled to liftoff no earlier
than March 20th from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia for the
National Reconnaissance Office.
Images and video from the launch of ‘Owl Night Long” are
available for download here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBhdGh
+ About Rocket Lab
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with
an established track record of mission success. We deliver reliable
launch services, satellite manufacture, spacecraft components, and
on-orbit management solutions that make it faster, easier, and more
affordable to access space. Headquartered in Long Beach,
California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small
orbital launch vehicle, the Photon satellite platform, and the
Company is developing the large Neutron launch vehicle for
constellation deployment. Since its first orbital launch in January
2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second
most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered 178
satellites to orbit for private and public sector organizations,
enabling operations in national security, scientific research,
space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and
communications. Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been
selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as
the first private commercial mission to Venus. Rocket Lab has three
launch pads at two launch sites, including two launch pads at a
private orbital launch site located in New Zealand and a third
launch pad in Virginia. To learn more, visit
www.rocketlabusa.com.
+ About Synspective
Synspective, established in 2018, is an end-to-end SAR satellite
data and solution provider with the mission to realize a learning
world for people to expand their capabilities and make tangible
progress with new data and technologies.
With a SAR satellite constellation that enables high-frequency
and high-resolution Earth observation, Synspective delivers
satellite data and various solutions that combine SAR and IoT data
with machine learning and data science techniques.
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