WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab launched the latest in a series of satellites for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective on March 20.
An Electron lifted off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 2:10 p.m. Eastern and deployed Synspective's StriX satellite 55 minutes later into a planned orbit at an altitude of 573 kilometers and an inclination of 50.2 degrees.
This was the eighth satellite for Synspective, a Japanese company developing a constellation of synthetic aperture radar imaging spacecraft. All of the satellites have been launched on Electron rockets.
