Owl The Way Up

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-12-21 14:13
Scheduled for (NZDT) 2024-12-22 03:13
Launch site Rocket Lab LC-1B, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand
Booster recovery No
Launch vehicle Electron + Curie
Customers Synspective
Payload StriX satellite
Mission success criteria Successful deployment of spacecraft into Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Livestreams

Stream Link
Rocket Lab (official) https://www.youtube.com/@RocketLabNZ/streams (scrub)
Space Affairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18IPBBMxxE (scrub)
The Launch Pad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lgi4-3pKK4

Stats

  • This will be the 16th launch for Rocket Lab this year.
  • This will be the 58th overall launch for Rocket Lab.

Payload info:

Rocket Lab mission page

NextSpaceflight:

This is the second of a bulk buy of two Electron launches by Synspective to deliver their StriX satellites to low Earth orbit. StriX satellites can collect data with a ground resolution of 1-3m and a swath width of more than 10-30km. Each Electron launch will deliver 1 StriX satellite into orbit. This will be the overall 6th StriX satellite launched by Rocket Lab for Synspective.


Previous mission: Stonehenge

Next mission: TBD

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  • threelonmusketeersOPM
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    3 days ago

    https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1869623681586274779

    We made a list (of launch commit criteria), checked it twice (against the weather forecast), and determined conditions for lift-off were naughty not nice.

    As a result we’re now targeting 21 Dec NZT for the launch of ‘Owl The Way Up’ for @Synspective.

    ⏰NZT | 3:00 am, 21 Dec
    ⏰PT | 6:00 am, 20 Dec
    ⏰ET | 9:00 am, 20 Dec
    ⏰UTC | 14:00, 20 Dec