15 December 2020, 10:09 UTC
The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
Rocket Lab's 'The Owl's Night Begins' mission launched the StriX-alpha synthetic-aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, the firm's first dedicated SAR demonstration satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 150 kg
- Flight
- 17th
- of 89 Electron flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 2020, 10:09 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
- 2020-098
- Launches in 2020
- 107th of 114
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