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Rocket Lab returns to service with successful launch for Capella

August 31, 2020 Stephen Clark

Flying for the first time since a failure in early July, Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher delivered Capella Space’s first commercial radar remote sensing satellite to orbit after lifting off from New Zealand Sunday.

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Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches Capella’s first commercial radar satellite

August 30, 2020 Stephen Clark

Rocket Lab’s first mission since a failed launch in early July took off at 11:05 p.m. EDT Sunday (0305 GMT Monday) from New Zealand. The small satellite launcher carried into orbit a commercial radar remote sensing spacecraft for Capella Space.

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Amid shuffling schedules, Capella to fly its first commercial satellite with Rocket Lab

August 30, 2020 Stephen Clark

After switching rockets two times due to launch delays, Capella Space is set to launch the first spacecraft in a constellation of commercial radar reconnaissance satellites from New Zealand Sunday on a Rocket Lab Electron booster.

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Argentine team returns to Florida to prep radar satellite for late July launch

July 6, 2020 Stephen Clark

A team of 18 Argentine engineers is quarantining in Florida this week after arriving from Buenos Aires, observing coronavirus health restrictions before beginning operations at Cape Canaveral next week to ready Argentina’s second radar Earth observation satellite for liftoff as soon as July 25 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Coronavirus concerns force postponement of SpaceX launch with Argentine satellite

March 24, 2020 Stephen Clark

Concerns about the coronavirus pandemic have prompted officials to postpone the planned March 30 launch of Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B radar observation satellite from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, officials said Tuesday.

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