Owl The Way Up (StriX Launch 6)

'Owl The Way Up' deployed a single StriX synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective into a 574 km orbit — Rocket Lab's 16th Electron launch of 2024, a new annual record.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

150 kg

Flight

55th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

21 December 2024, 14:17 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

2024-248

Launches in 2024

256th of 263

See it in orbit

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