20 March 2026 year Fr. 18:10 (UTC) from the LC launch complex1, Mahia Peninsula, UTC, using a launch vehicle «Electron» Japan's spacecraft was launched «StriX».
«StriX» – this is a spacecraft from the Japanese company Synspective, which has its own group of satellites with synthesized aperture radars (SAR) with resolution 1-3 city, and the width of the line of sight 10-30 km. Spacecraft are designed to receive images, which make it possible to detect changes in the Earth's surface from space.
Mission «Eight Days A Week» – Rocket Lab's eighth launch for Synspective and the next launch in the series with 20 future missions to deploy the company's fleet of Earth-imaging satellites.
PH «Electron» — a two-stage disposable launch vehicle developed by the American aerospace company Rocket Lab and designed to launch small satellites and cubesats into sun-synchronous orbit and low Earth orbit.
This launch will expand the CA grouping «StriX» will on 1 KA. At the moment, the group consists of 6 KA. It is planned, that the KA group «StriX» will charge 27 satellites.
According to the CCS