Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite tv for pc for the Japanese Earth-observation firm Synspective as we speak (Oct. 14), and you may watch the motion stay.
An Electron rocket is scheduled to raise off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand web site as we speak at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 5:30 a.m. Oct. 15 native New Zealand time), on a mission known as “Owl New World.”
You possibly can watch it stay through Rocket Lab starting half-hour earlier than launch. Area.com will simulcast Rocket Lab’s stream if, as anticipated, the corporate makes it obtainable.
The mission’s identify is a reference to the payload — considered one of Synspective’s Strix radar-imaging satellites. (Strix is a genus of owls.)
This specific spacecraft is “the primary of a brand new era of satellites by Synspective for its low Earth orbit constellation that gives high-frequency, high-resolution Earth commentary knowledge for catastrophe response and administration, nationwide safety and environmental monitoring,” Rocket Lab wrote in a mission description, which yow will discover right here.
If all goes in response to plan as we speak, Electron will deploy the Strix satellite tv for pc 362 miles (583 kilometers) above Earth simply over 50 minutes after launch.
Six Strix satellites have attain orbit up to now, on six completely different Electron flights. There might be one other 20 such launches after as we speak to complete constructing out the constellation, in response to Rocket Lab.
Right this moment’s launch might be Rocket Lab’s fifteenth of 2025 and 73rd total up to now.
