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Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-imaging satellite into orbit from New Zealand – Space.com
The launch was Rocket Lab’s seventh of 2020 and 17th overall.
Rocket Lab
just launched another small satellite to orbit.
A two-stage Electron booster
lifted off from Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launch site at 5:09 a.m. EST (1009 GMT) today (Dec. 15), carrying the first member of the “Strix” family of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites developed by the Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective.
SAR-equipped spacecraft can view Earth’s surface at any time of day or night and in all weather conditions; clouds and darkness do not deter radio waves. Synspective…
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