Rocket Lab has launched the first of 21 planned Electron missions for Japanese radar imaging company Synspective, successfully deploying the StriX-3 satellite to low Earth orbit on October 14. The mission, named "Owl New World," lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 16:33 UTC.

The launch marked Rocket Lab's 15th mission of the year and its seventh for Synspective since 2020. The StriX-3 satellite joins Synspective's growing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation, which provides high-resolution Earth-observation data for applications such as infrastructure monitoring, disaster response, and environmental analysis.

Rocket Lab will deliver a total of 27 Synspective satellites, with 21 more dedicated missions scheduled before the decade's end. The Japanese company

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