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Launch Date
6/1/2022
Launch Site
MAHIA LC1B
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Launch Vehicle
Electron L (Electron Family)
Advanced Space won a NASA contract in 2019 to develop CAPSTONE to test the stability of the NRHO.
The CAPSTONE launch was scheduled to take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula as early as 10:00 a.m. UTC / 6:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 a.m. PDT on 2022-06-27.
Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems of Irvine, California, a Terran Orbital company, provided the CubeSat platform for Capstone.
Rocket Lab’s Electron launched NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) cubesat on 2022-06-28.
Advanced Space is targeting a CAPSTONE launch window that opens 2022-05-27 with instantaneous launch opportunities available daily until late June.
NASA is spending about $30,000,000 on CAPSTONE across its contracts with Advanced Space and Rocket Lab.
Terran Orbital Corporation completed CAPSTONE’s second trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) burn on 2022-07-12.
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.
Advanced Space is based in Westminster, Colorado and operates the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) experiment launched in June as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA on 2022-06-28.
Rocket Lab launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission to the Moon on 2022-06-28 as an Electron mission.
Terran Orbital delivered five satellites during the second quarter of 2022, including NASA’s CAPSTONE and the first of ten satellite buses for the SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Rocket Lab achieved three successful Electron launches in just over five weeks in 2022 with CAPSTONE, NROL-162, and NROL-199.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA on 2022-06-28 using an Electron rocket.
CAPSTONE was launched in 2022-06-01 and was deployed from Rocket Lab’s Lunar Photon kick stage on 2022-07-04.
Rocket Lab set a previous launch turnaround record at Launch Complex 1 in 2022 when it launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission followed by a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office 15 days later.
Rocket Lab developed and launched a high-energy variant of Photon in 2022 that deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
A high-energy variant of Rocket Lab’s Photon was developed and launched in 2022 and successfully deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
A high-energy variant of Photon was developed and launched by Rocket Lab in 2022 and successfully deployed the CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit for NASA.
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon using its Electron launch vehicle and Lunar Photon satellite bus.