Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)

Name: Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)
Start: 2026-09-26T00:39:00.000Z
End: 2026-09-26T00:39:00.000Z
Location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B

Electron, Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Launch time

T-0

Sat 26 Sept, 02:39 CEST

00:39 UTC

Minute precision Launch successful

The rocket put its payload into the planned orbit.

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Source updated Tue 29 Sept, 01:36 CEST

Updated 11 Oct, 00:22 CEST

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Slip history

No changes since we started tracking on Sat 10 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC.

Sat 26 Sept 2026, 04:31 UTCLL2 update
Launch success with satellite in operation.
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Sat 26 Sept 2026, 01:40 UTCLL2 update
Spacecraft separation.
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Sat 26 Sept 2026, 00:40 UTCLL2 update
Liftoff.
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Sat 26 Sept 2026, 00:16 UTCLL2 update
Official Webcast by Rocket Lab has started
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Fri 25 Sept 2026, 23:21 UTCLL2 update
New T-0.
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Thu 24 Sept 2026, 22:17 UTCLL2 update
Adjusted T-0.
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Sat 19 Sept 2026, 04:36 UTCLL2 update
GO for launch.
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Sat 19 Sept 2026, 04:21 UTCLL2 update
Moved up to NET late September.
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Fri 27 Mar 2026, 00:34 UTCLL2 update
NET December.
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Tue 18 Jun 2024, 07:47 UTCLL2 update
Adding launch TBD 2025-2027
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Mission

Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13) on Electron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B. Launch time, status and recorded date changes from Launch Library 2.

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Mission type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Rocket file imagery

The light of an Electron launch rises above a water tower and an illuminated exhaust cloud at night. — File imagery: Virginia is for Launch Lovers, 24 January 2023. Electron lifting off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops.
Credit: NASA/Danielle Johnson · Public domain (NASA) · Source

Mission patches

Owlright, Owlright, Owlright Patch

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Launch timeline

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Launch pad

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand (NZ)

Coordinates: -39.262833, 177.864469

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