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No countdown — this launch time is not yet known to the minute.June 28, 2022Add to calendar
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Rocket Lab's 27th launch · 4th this year · humanity's 6,255th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jun 28, 09:55 – Jun 28, 09:55 UTC
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CAPSTONE
CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in near rectiliniar halo orbit around the Moon, which is to be used for the Lunar Gateway space station. Mission will verify the near rectilinear halo orbit characteristics, spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation services in that orbit, and provide valuable experience of small sat launch to the Moon.
Planetary Science · Lunar Orbit (LO)
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- 27 · flight 1 · expendable · zone record 4/6
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Successful Electron launch. Photon's HyperCurie engine will perform apogee raising burns around every 24 hours for five days, before a final burn on the sixth day to set CAPSTONE on a trans lunar injection
Nosu · 6/28/2022 · source
Liftoff
Nosu · 6/28/2022 · source
Webcast live
Nosu · 6/28/2022 · source
Weather 75%
Jay · 6/28/2022 · source
Adjusting T-0
Jay · 6/27/2022 · source
NET June 28
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/26/2022 · source
Updating T-0
Nosu · 6/24/2022 · source
NET June 27
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/23/2022 · source
Adding T-0 and setting GO
Nosu · 6/16/2022 · source
NET June 25
Nosu · 6/8/2022 · source
News
NASA selects successor to CAPSTONE lunar mission
NASA has selected Advanced Space to fly a successor to a cislunar smallsat mission that will test rendezvous and proximity operations around the moon.
NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched […]
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39 launches from this pad · 81 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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