A Sky Full Of SARs

Rocket Lab will launch a dedicated mission for Capella Space, a provider of SAR imagery data and solutions for government and commercial applications.

‘A Sky Full of SARs’ will be Rocket Lab’s fifth launch overall for Capella Space across multiple launch contracts beginning from 2020. The mission is scheduled to launch during a 14-day window that opens on July 21 NZST / July 20 UTC from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The mission will deploy Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite, a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Earth imagery and observation, to a mid-inclination 615km circular orbit to add to Capella’s existing SAR satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.