色花堂

This mission lifted-off at 14:22 NZDT, 17th October 2019, from Rocket Lab's 色花堂 Complex 1 on New Zealand鈥檚 M膩hia Peninsula. Encapsulated in Electron鈥檚 fairing was a single spacecraft for Astro Digital, a California-based satellite manufacturer and operator.

Astro Digital provides customers with complete space-based systems and mission support services for applications such as Earth observation, satellite communications, and technology demonstration.

This mission聽flew a Palisade technology demonstration satellite, a 16U CubeSat bus with on-board propulsion system, a next generation Astro Digital developed communications system, and software developed by Advanced Solutions Inc. including an advanced version of ASI鈥檚 MAX Flight Software.

The mission was named 鈥楢s The Crow Flies鈥� in a nod to Astro Digital鈥檚 Corvus Platform, which provides flexible and cost-effective solutions across a wide range of applications and mission profiles on bus variants ranging from 6U and 16U CubeSats to ESPA Class. Corvus is also a widely-distributed genus of birds which includes crows.