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MISSION SUCCESS: Rocket Lab Launches 96th Electron Mission

Globe Newswire19/09/202600:52 ET
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MAHIA, New Zealand, Sept. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched the latest Earth-observation satellite to space for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company, Synspective.

The ‘Owl By The Dozen’ mission launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 3:22pm NZST on September 19, 2026 and delivered the 12(th) StriX satellite directly into an exact 572km low Earth orbit for Synspective’s Earth-monitoring constellation.

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