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Launch Schedule Change Announced by Rocket Lab

Capella Space Asks for More Time to Prepare for Mission

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Tom Patton
Jul 24, 2024
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The ‘A Sky Full Of SARs’ mission scheduled by Rocket Lab for Capella Space has been pushed back indefinitely, according to the company.

When it does launch, the mission will deploy Capella’s Acadia-3 SAR satellite, a synthetic aperture radar satellite for Earth imagery and observation, to a mid-inclination 615 km (≈382 mile) circular orbit to add to Cap…

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