The Owl’s Night Continues (StriX-β)

Rocket Lab's Electron mission 'The Owl's Night Continues' launched a radar-imaging satellite for Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective, the first launch from the newly built Pad B at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

150 kg

Flight

24th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

28 February 2022, 20:37 UTC

Rocket

Electron

Builder

Rocket Lab

Launch site

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2022-020

Launches in 2022

21st of 186

See it in orbit

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