Pad B now has a launch under its belt.
lofted a private Earth-observation satellite today from the newly finished second pad at its Launch Complex 1, on New Zealand's North Island. rocket topped with Strix-β, which will be operated by the Japanese company Synspective, lifted off from Pad B at 3:37 p.m. EST on a mission Rocket Lab calls"The Owl's Night Continues." Fifty-three minutes later, Strix-β deployed as planned into its designated orbit, 349 miles above our planet.
"The Owl's Night Continues" was the 24th launch for Rocket Lab and the 59-foot-tall Electron, which gives small satellites dedicated rides to orbit. The previous 23 flights had all taken off from Pad A at Launch Complex 1. Bringing a second pad online at the site will make a big difference, Rocket Lab representatives said.
"The addition of Pad B increases Rocket Lab's responsive launch capabilities and support[s] an increased launch cadence by eliminating the time it takes to recycle and prepare the current pad between missions, making it possible to launch multiple missions just days apart," the company wrote in the press kit for"The Owl's Night Continues," which you can findRocket Lab has also built a third pad, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia's Wallops Island.
As its name suggests,"The Owl's Night Continues" is not the first mission that Rocket Lab has flown for Synspective; an Electron launched the StriX-α satellite in December 2020 on" ." And more will follow; Rocket Lab is contracted to launch one more StriX mission this year and another in 2023, company representatives said.
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