Friday, September 16, 2022

Rocket Lab Launches 30th Mission

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab successfully launched its 30th mission, and delivered its 150th satellite to space on Thursday. The company's latest mission, "The Owl Spreads Its Wings", was a dedicated mission for Synspective, a Japanese company developing Earth observation satelites. The company said it successfully launched one of its Electron rockets at 20:38 UTC, September 15, 2022, deploying a single spacecraft, the StriX-1 satellite, to a 563km circular Earth orbit.