Owl For One, One For Owl (StriX Launch 5)

Rocket Lab's 'Owl For One, One For Owl' mission deployed the fifth StriX synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective into a 543 km orbit — the 51st Electron launch overall.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

150 kg

Flight

50th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

2 August 2024, 16:39 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

2024-137

Launches in 2024

142nd of 263

See it in orbit

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