I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical (Capella 2 & First Light)

Rocket Lab's "I Can't Believe It's Not Optical" mission returned Electron to flight after a July failure, deploying Capella Space's Sequoia satellite, the company's first commercial synthetic-aperture radar spacecraft, into a 500 km orbit.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

150 kg (est.)

Flight

14th

of 89 Electron flights

Date and time

31 August 2020, 03:05 UTC

Rocket

Electron

Builder

Rocket Lab

Launch site

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

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2020-060

Launches in 2020

66th of 114

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