Rocket Lab launches radar imaging satellite for iQPS

Rocket Lab launched the latest in a series of radar imaging satellites for a Japanese company May 17. An Electron rocket lifted off from Pad A at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 4:17 a.m. Eastern. About 50 minutes later it deployed its payload, the QPS-SAR-10 satellite, into a circular 575-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 42 degrees. More

(Source: SpaceNews - May 18)