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The Owl's Night Begins (StriX-α)

Typ
Earth Science
Orbit
Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

StriX-α is a demonstration mission for Japanese company Synspective which plans to deploy a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites. For this mission, Rocket Lab will utilize a custom expanded fairing to encompass Synspective’s wide-body satellite – the first use of the expanded fairing options that Rocket Lab recently introduced.