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2019 · Rocket Lab

As The Crow Flies (Palisade)

successElectron | As The Crow Flies (Palisade)

Encapsulated in Electron's fairing will be a single spacecraft for Astro Digital, a California-based satellite manufacturer and operator. The Landmapper-BC remote sensing satellite features a broad coverage multispectral imaging system with a resolution of 22 meters per pixel. Eventually, Astro Digital plans to extend the Landmapper-BC constellation to capture daily, multispectral imagery of the world’s arable land. The mission is named 'As The Crow Flies' in a nod to Astro Digital's Corvus Platform, which provides flexible and cost-effective solutions across a wide range of applications and mission profiles on bus variants ranging from 6U and 16U CubeSats to ESPA Class. Corvus is also a widely-distributed genus of birds which includes crows.

Overview

Date / time
October 17, 2019 at 01:22 AM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A
Mission
As The Crow Flies (Palisade)
Mission type
Earth Science
Orbit achieved
Low Earth Orbit
Launch vehicle
Electron →
Launch provider
Rocket Lab →

Payloads deployed · 1

PALISADE
LEO