Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite tv for pc for the Japanese Earth-observation firm Synspective at present (Oct. 14), and you’ll watch the motion stay.
An Electron rocket is scheduled to elevate off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand web site at present at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 5:30 a.m. Oct. 15 native New Zealand time), on a mission referred to as “Owl New World.”
You possibly can watch it stay via Rocket Lab starting half-hour earlier than launch. Area.com will simulcast Rocket Lab’s stream if, as anticipated, the corporate makes it accessible.
The mission’s identify is a reference to the payload — considered one of Synspective’s Strix radar-imaging satellites. (Strix is a genus of owls.)
This specific spacecraft is “the primary of a brand new era of satellites by Synspective for its low Earth orbit constellation that provides high-frequency, high-resolution Earth observation data for disaster response and management, national security and environmental monitoring,” Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description, which you can find here.
If all goes based on plan at present, Electron will deploy the Strix satellite tv for pc 362 miles (583 kilometers) above Earth simply over 50 minutes after launch.
Six Strix satellites have attain orbit up to now, on six completely different Electron flights. There will probably be one other 20 such launches after at present to complete constructing out the constellation, based on Rocket Lab.
As we speak’s launch will probably be Rocket Lab’s fifteenth of 2025 and 73rd general up to now.
