15 September 2022, 20:38 UTC
The Owl Spreads Its Wings (StriX 1)
Rocket Lab's "The Owl Spreads Its Wings" mission, its 30th Electron launch, deployed Synspective's StriX-1 synthetic aperture radar satellite into sun-synchronous orbit, the Japanese company's first commercial SAR spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 150 kg
- Flight
- 30th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 2022, 20:38 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
- 2022-113
- Launches in 2022
- 117th of 186
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