Rocket Lab “Owl Night Long” Launch

Rocket Lab plan to launch an Electron rocket carrying a Synspective StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation satellite to a 561 km Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at a 97° inclination on 2024-03-12 at 14:00 UTC with a 75 minute launch window. The launch will be from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex-1B on the Māhia Peninsula of New Zealand. This will be the 45th overall launch of the Electron rocket and the third of 2024. Payload mass is ~100 kg.

Rocket Lab will not recover the first stage booster from the Pacific Ocean.

Here is a pre-flight preview from Everyday Astronaut.

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