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September 16, 2022 – TheNewswire – Rocket Lab USA (RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, announced the delivery of its 30th mission and 150th satellite into orbit following the latest successful Electron launch earlier this week.
“The Owl Spreads Its Wings,” a special mission for Japanese Earth observation company Synspective, was launched on the Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab’s launch complex in mid-September. The mission successfully placed a single spacecraft, the StriX-1 satellite, into a 563 km circular Earth orbit, where it will join other StriX satellites launched by Rocket Lab in February 2022 and December 2020 and as part of the Observation Satellite Constellation on the Earth of Synspective’ .
Earlier in September, Rocket Lab also successfully tested a reused Rutherford prime mover for the first time. The company says this is a significant technical achievement as Rocket Lab develops the Electron into the world’s first reusable orbital small rocket.
Rocket Lab says its remaining 2022 manifest includes another attempt to recover an Electron rocket by helicopter and the first Electron mission from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2&CloseCurlyQuote in Wallops Island, Virginia.
Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with a proven track record of successful missions. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle has become the second most frequently launched US rocket annually and delivered 150 satellites into orbit.
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