Rocket Lab will launch a radar satellite for the Japanese Earth-observation company Synspective today (Oct. 14), and you can watch the action live.

An Electron rocket is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 5:30 a.m. Oct. 15 local New Zealand time), on a mission called "Owl New World."

You can watch it live via Rocket Lab beginning 30 minutes before launch. Space.com will simulcast Rocket Lab's stream if, as expected, the company makes it available.

The mission's name is a reference to the payload — one of Synspective's Strix radar-imaging satellites. (Strix is a genus of owls.)

This particular spacecraft is "the first of a new generation of satellites by Synspective for its low Earth orbit constellation that provides high-frequenc

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