11 August 2024, 13:18 UTC
A Sky Full of SARs (Capella Acadia 3)
Rocket Lab's 'A Sky Full of SARs' mission deployed the Acadia-3 synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite for Capella Space into a 615 km mid-inclination orbit from Mahia, New Zealand — the company's fifth launch for Capella.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 180 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 51st
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 11 August 2024, 13:18 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
- 2024-142
- Launches in 2024
- 147th of 263
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