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SpaceX has postponed his latest Starlink release, but Rocket Lab is still ready to take off on Wednesday and you can watch the mission right here.
the spatial start It will send 10 small satellites into low Earth orbit on one of its Electron rockets, which is scheduled to lift off from the company’s launch facilities in New Zealand between 2:14 and 3:03 p.m. Pacific time.
Rocket Lab’s thrusters are smaller and designed for lighter payloads than SpaceX and other competitors. This mission, dubbed In Focus, will launch nine new SuperDove satellites for Planet, which operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites on Earth at the moment.
Also on board, as part of a shared-ride arrangement, will be a Canon demonstration CubeSat that is equipped with a medium-sized telescope and an ultra-high sensitivity camera to capture images of the Earth and Moon.
Rocket Lab has plans to start recovering your rockets in the future using a daring helicopter maneuver, but we won’t see anything like it with this mission. The Electron rocket will wear out and fall into the Pacific Ocean.
It should still be a worth watching release though, and you can catch it live here via the feed above.
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