A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Rocket Lab will launch a record-equalling mission from Māhia later today.
Scheduled for lift-off at 6.30pm, the mission — titled We Will Never Desert You — is for American space tech company Capella Space, a provider of commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery.
We Will Never Desert You will be
Rocket Lab’s third launch for Capella in 2023 and second launch in a multi-launch contract of four missions to deploy Capella’s new Acadia satellites to low Earth orbit.
As Capella’s sole launch provider in 2023 to build out the company’s Earth-imaging constellation, earlier missions in 2023 for the company included We Love The Nightlife, launched from Launch Complex 1 in Māhia in August , and Stronger Together, launched from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia, in March.
Each Capella Space mission will also be supported by a Rocket Lab manufactured motorised lightband — separation systems for each satellite to attach to and deploy from Electron once launched to orbit.
