Electron z japońskim satelitą 28.02. o 20:37:25 z nowej wyrzutni LC-1B w Onenui Station wystrzelona została RN Electron/Curie, która wyniosła w T+52' 02" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=561 km, ha=561 km, i=97° satelitę obserwacji radarowej StriX-β; dla japońskiej firmy Synspective.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n220216.htm#06Electron launches “The Owl’s Night Continues”https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1498399814870274049Our 24th Electron launch
First mission from new LC-1 pad
110th satellite deployed to orbit by Electron
Congratulations to the team at @synspective on growing your constellation. We are so proud to be your mission partners.
https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1498417490510053381https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/28/electron-strix-b-mission-status-center/Rocket Lab debuts new launch pad, deploys Japanese radar satelliteFebruary 28, 2022 Stephen Clark
Synspective’s Strix β radar remote sensing satellite is prepared for encapsulation inside Rocket Lab’s Electron nose cone. Credit: Synspective(...) Synspective is one of several companies planning to build out constellations of radar satellites for Earth-imaging. ICEYE of Finland and California-based Capella Space have already launched multiple small satellites with sophisticated radar payloads. Umbra, another U.S. company, also recently launched its first commercial radar satellite.
Rocket Lab launched Synspective’s first satellite in December 2020. (...)
Launch Complex 1B has its own storage tanks for kerosene and liquid oxygen used by the Electron rocket. The two pads at Mahia Peninsula are independent from one another, but the facilities share a rocket integration hangar and clean rooms for processing satellites for launch.
Beck said the two pads could support two Electron launches within a day of one another.“Our goal here would not be to launch within hours, but certainly within a day or so, there would be no problem at all,” Beck said. “But it really is a human resources issue, not an infrastructure issue.” (...)
Rocket Lab has also built an Electron launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, and the company aims to launch from there later this year. The first Electron flight from the Virginia launch pad has been delayed to await certification of a new NASA range safety device, which will make its debut on the first Rocket Lab mission from Wallops.
With three launch pads soon to be in operation, Beck said
Rocket Lab intends to increase its launch cadence up to a dozen missions in 2022. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/28/rocket-lab-debuts-new-launch-pad-deploys-japanese-radar-satellite/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/02/the-owls-night-continues/AA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3856.msg174981#msg174981https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/strix-beta.htm
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