A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
After successfully launching its latest rocket mission earlier this week, Rocket Lab yesterday said it would launch again in a week.
The “We Love the Nightlife” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at Māhia for American space tech company Capella Space (Capella), a leading provider
of commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery.
“We Love the Nightlife” will be Rocket Lab’s third launch for Capella following the successful “Stronger Together” mission launched in March 2023 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 in Virginia, USA, and the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Optical” mission in August 2020 from Launch Complex 1, which deployed the first satellite in Capella’s SAR constellation.
“We Love the Nightlife”will be the first of four new dedicated launches on Electron for Capella, announced in February 2023, to deploy Capella’s next-generation SAR Earth-imaging satellites called Acadia.
“Electron was the trusted launch vehicle for Capella’s first publicly available satellite when we launched their mission in 2020, so it’s an honour once again to be entrusted with launching the first of their next generation Acadia satellites,” Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck said.
