Rocket Lab completes ninth dedicated Electron launch for Synspective
Rocket Lab has successfully launched and deployed a further satellite for Japanese Earth observation company Synspective, marking the ninth dedicated Electron mission conducted for the customer. The mission, named “Viva La StriX”, lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand on 22 May and delivered Synspective’s latest StriX satellite into a 572km low Earth orbit. The deployment expands Synspective’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation, which is used to provide Earth obser