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Rocket Lab · Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

A Rocket Lab Electron climbs from Mahia, New Zealand.
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Electron | StriX Launch 29

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What this is

Rocket Lab is launching a rocket called Electron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. It is for Synspective. This path flies over Earth in the same kind of sunlight every day, which is what picture-taking satellites like.

Rocket Lab is flying a Electron from Unknown Pad, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Mission: StriX Launch 29. Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. Planned orbit: . Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.

From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 7,307 miles southwest. The broadcast is the view.

That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway.

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Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

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Only what the listing says

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So the slip still finds you

A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.