Mission record
Electron | The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Rocket Lab
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
New Zealand
Date
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:09:27 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6030 ever
Go probability
95%
Mission
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.