Rocket Recent Launch increases the number of Earth-observational in orbit by 10 – Tri-City Tribune

On October 28 at 5:21 p.m. EDT, a launch sent ten satellites to orbit. The company in charge of the launch was Rocket Lab, and the liftoff rocket was its Electron booster. The venue was its launch pad in New Zealand, and going by the country’s time, the launch took place on October 29 at 10:21 a.m., equivalent to 2121 GMT. Nine of the payloads, small-sized CubeSats referred to as SuperDoves, expanded the already prominent Planet’s constellation. The company, which is based in San Francisco, has…

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