Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22

Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22), and you can watch the action live. An Electron rocket carrying one of Synspective's Strix satellites is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site on Friday at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT; 9:30 p.m. local New Zealand time), on a mission called "Viva La Strix." You can watch it live via Rocket Lab beginning at about 5:00 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT). …