Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese radar satellite to orbit early Aug. 31

Rocket Lab will launch a private Japanese radar satellite to orbit early Monday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the action live.An Electron vehicle is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Monday during a window that opens at 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT; midnight on Sept. 1 local New Zealand time). It's carrying a single Strix satellite for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Earth-imaging company.You can watch it live via Rocket Lab, beginning about 30 minutes before launch. Space