Rocket Lab has announced the window for its 51st Electron launch, a mission that will send the latest satellite skywards for its long-standing customer Synspective. 

The Owl for One, One for Owl mission is scheduled to leave Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at Māhia during a 14-day window that opens next Thursday, Rocket Lab said in a statement. 

In addition to deploying a single StriX satellite to low Earth orbit for this mission, Rocket Lab will perform an advanced mid-mission manoeuvre with Electron’s kick stage to shield the satellite from the sun and reduce radiation exposure. 

The mission will be the fifth of a total of 16 launches on Electron for Synspective, a Japanese Earth observation company deploying a constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites designed to deliver imagery that can detect millimetre-level changes to the Earth’s surface from space. 

Rocket Lab has been the sole launch provider for Synspective’s constellation to date. 

The partnership was further cemented recently by a new multi-launch contract of 10 dedicated Electron launches for Synspective announced in June. 

The launches in this new deal are set to take place across 2025-2027. 

Rocket Lab chief executive Sir Peter Beck said Synspective’s long-standing trust in the company to build out its constellation was recognition of Electron’s continued dominance as the ultimate small launch vehicle for the industry.