2020 · Rocket Lab
The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
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StriX-α is a demonstration mission for Japanese company Synspective which plans to deploy a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites. For this mission, Rocket Lab will utilize a custom expanded fairing to encompass Synspective’s wide-body satellite – the first use of the expanded fairing options that Rocket Lab recently introduced.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 15, 2020 at 10:09 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
- Mission
- The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit