Rocket Lab - 'A Sky Full of SARs' Launch

Mission Name: A Sky Full of SARs

Launch Date: 11 August 2024 UTC

Launch Site: Launch Complex 1, Mahia, New Zealand

Customers: Capella Space

Payloads (Satellites) Launched: Acadia-3

Rocket Lab launched a dedicated mission for Capella Space, a provider of SAR imagery data and solutions for government and commercial applications.

‘A Sky Full of SARs’ was Rocket Lab’s fifth launch overall for Capella Space across multiple launch contracts beginning from 2020. The mission deployed Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite, a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Earth imagery and observation, to a mid-inclination 615km circular orbit to add to Capella’s existing SAR satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.

[clevergirl]

man the cadence of Electron launches has indeed picked up this year! 10 launches and we still have 5 months left.
Congrats RocketLab on another mission well done!

[thedarkside]

20:16 - T-3/lift off,
22:57 - Meco/Stage separation,
24:25 - Fairing separation (no views),
26:52 - Battery hot swap,
29:28 - Seco,
1:17:08 - Payload deployment.

Thanks.

[Foggy-xwbn]

That is SO impressive RocketLab! Makes me almost as proud a Kiwi as our Olympians do.... 😀👋👋💪🤩

[rugbygirl]

Good luck SARS you were great! Watching you come alive makes it worth working in the rain, wind and cold! ❤🚀

[PotteryLife]

Congratulation, Rocket Labs! Can't wait for Neutron! Thanks for showing us a little more battery hardware. btw One of the worst thing a live PAO team can do is to tell its audience what the upcoming call out will be, (then we listen to the call out), then you tell us that we just listened to the call out. (repeat) 😑

[CombatKHandler]

Congratulations on another successful launch, Rocket Lab team. Awesome work, as always. Stay motivated, everyone. Thank you for helping improve life on earth.

[SlipKnotRicky]

I just realized that a "Status Chick" is actually a Status Check...LOL Go NZ ! Go RocketLab!

[sickbale]

*_A sky full of Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome_*

[dhracecars]

Been watching rocket launches since the Mercury 7 days. I see on the Rocket Lab launches, I see lots of what looks like sparks in the engine plumes. Are the engines running hardware rich?

[waynepalmer]

Great Job, now make you rockets 100% reusable!

[andrewjones]

Most successful space rocket launch company on earth at present. Space x, NASA etc seem to have trouble even getting a rocket off the ground. Go Kiwis.

[mushmouth]

It's crazy that camera people do not know how to use a shutter or ISO. Probably a DEI hire

[Fatpumpumlovah]

this will start to be impressive when you dont dump the entire first stage into oblivion. till then your nothing but an old ways and wasteful company. strange those activists havent complained about the amount of batteries your dumping into the ocean.