Rocket Lab has successfully launched another satellite for Japanese Earth observation company Synspective, completing the tenth dedicated Electron mission for the customer with a 100% mission success record.<\/p>\n
The mission, named \u201cTen Owl Of Ten,\u201d<\/strong> lifted off aboard an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 5:43 a.m. NZST on 27 June 2026 and deployed its payload into a 552-kilometre low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n The launch marks Rocket Lab\u2019s 12th mission of 2026 and continues one of the company\u2019s longest-running commercial partnerships.<\/p>\n The latest satellite expands Synspective\u2019s StriX synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation to ten operational satellites, all of which have been launched by Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron vehicle.<\/p>\n Rocket Lab said it developed a specially configured Electron payload fairing for the mission to accommodate the dimensions of the StriX satellite, supporting the deployment requirements of the constellation.<\/p>\n The mission increases Rocket Lab\u2019s total launch count to 91, further extending Electron\u2019s position as one of the most frequently launched dedicated small satellite launch vehicles.<\/p>\n The company said it has another 17 Electron launches under contract for Synspective as the customer continues to expand its StriX constellation through the end of the decade.<\/p>\n The next dedicated Synspective mission is expected to launch in the early part of the third quarter of this year.<\/p>\n Synspective\u2019s StriX satellites use synthetic aperture radar technology to capture high-resolution Earth observation imagery regardless of weather conditions or time of day.<\/p>\n The constellation is designed to support applications including infrastructure monitoring, disaster response, environmental observation and land-use analysis.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rocket Lab has successfully launched another satellite for Japanese Earth observation company Synspective, completing the tenth dedicated Electron mission for the customer with a 100% mission success record. The mission, named \u201cTen Owl Of Ten,\u201d lifted off aboard an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 5:43 a.m. NZST on 27 June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,545,617,1596,544,157,7322,955,956,5986],"class_list":["post-20832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-earth-observation","tag-electron","tag-launch-services","tag-new-zealand","tag-rocket-lab","tag-sar","tag-small-satellite","tag-strix","tag-synspective","tag-synthetic-aperture-radar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tenth Mission for Synspective<\/h2>\n
Growing Launch Manifest<\/h2>\n
Supporting Earth Observation<\/h2>\n