Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.
Rocket Lab previously launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.
Rocket Lab provided launch services for the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.
CAPSTONE launched on Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus aboard an Electron launch vehicle on 2022-06-28.
CAPSTONE launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on 2022-06-28 and was deployed from Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon kick stage onto a low-energy ballistic lunar trajectory on 2022-07-04.
CAPSTONE launched on Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus aboard an Electron launch vehicle on 2022-06-28.
CAPSTONE was launched in 2022-06-01 and was deployed from Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon kick stage on 2022-07-04.
Rocket Lab launched CAPSTONE in June 2022 on its Electron rocket and injected the spacecraft into a ballistic lunar transfer trajectory using a Lunar Photon kick stage.
Lunar Photon had 10–15% of its propellant remaining more than a month after deploying CAPSTONE.
Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon deployed NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft to the Moon on 2022-06-28 and includes MAX Flight Software among its onboard systems.
CAPSTONE launched on 2022-06-28 aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle attached to Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft.
CAPSTONE’s deployment followed six days of orbit-raising burns around Earth aboard Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus.
Lunar Photon performed maneuvers that increased its orbital apogee to 70,0 m before the final translunar injection burn.
Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon stage released the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) cubesat at 3:18 a.m. Eastern.
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launched Lunar Photon and CAPSTONE on 2022-06-28, placing them into low Earth orbit.
The Lunar Photon kick stage uses a HyperCurie engine with a specific impulse of 310 seconds.
Around ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers that stretch its orbit into a prominent ellipse around Earth.
CAPSTONE will be launched to an initial low Earth orbit by Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle and then placed on a ballistic lunar transfer by Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus.
Approximately ten minutes after liftoff on Electron, Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon spacecraft bus with CAPSTONE attached will separate from the rocket and carry out a series of orbit-raising maneuvers.
CAPSTONE will be launched from New Zealand on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket with a Lunar Photon upper stage.