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Rocket Lab has successfully launched a commercial satellite into orbit

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The launch took place from the LC-1B launch complex located on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.

The American private space company Rocket Lab, using the Electron launch vehicle, successfully sent into orbit the StriX-3 radar remote sensing satellite from the Japanese company Synspective as part of the Owl Night Long mission. The company announced this on Tuesday, March 12. social networks X.

“The Owl Night Long launch, our 45th mission with the Electron launch vehicle!” says Rocket Lab.

The company explained that Strix can photograph millimeter-scale changes in the Earth’s surface from space, regardless of weather conditions at any time of the day or night.

It is known that the Owl Night Long mission is the fourth Rocket Lab launch for the Japanese company Synspective. The previous three missions for the company took place in December 2020, February 2022 and September 2022.

China plans to begin operating its first spaceport for commercial spacecraft in 2024. China’s plans include a record 100 space launches for the country.

Let’s remember that the former private landing spacecraft of Intuitive Machines Inc. An American private company called Odysseus successfully landed near the Moon’s south pole.

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