CAPSTONE Moon Mission - Rocket Lab
CAPSTONE aims to reduce risk and validate operational concepts for future missions using the same lunar orbit. In this orbit, CAPSTONE will orbit together with the Moon as it orbits Earth and will pass as close as 1600km and as far as 70000km from the lunar surface.
Rocket Lab Moon Mission for NASA a Success
Rocket Lab successfully deploys CAPSTONE satellite to lunar transfer orbit for NASA, charting a new path to the Moon. CAPSTONE is testing a never-before-flown orbit of the Moon and is the first mission of NASA’s Artemis program. Long Beach, California.
CAPSTONE - Rocket Lab
On July 04, 2022, Rocket Lab's Lunar Photon spacecraft completed a trans lunar injection and successfully deployed CAPSTONE on its mission to the Moon. Designed and built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, a Terran Orbital Corporation, and owned and operated by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA, CAPSTONE will be the first spacecraft to test the ...
Rocket Lab Moon Mission for NASA a Success - SpaceNews
Jul 4, 2022 · Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
CAPSTONE Launches to Test New Orbit for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions
Jun 28, 2022 · The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT (09:55 UTC) on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand Tuesday.
NASA's tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
Jun 28, 2022 · The Apollo missions made it to the moon in about three days. But those famous spacecraft were blasted off Earth by NASA's Saturn V rocket, the most powerful booster ever to fly.
NASA Sets Live Launch Coverage for CAPSTONE Mission to Moon
Jun 23, 2022 · NASA will air live launch coverage of the agency’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), the first spacecraft to fly a specific unique lunar orbit ahead of future missions with crew.
Rocket Lab Successfully Launches CAPSTONE Spacecraft, …
Jun 28, 2022 · Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
Rocket Lab Successfully Launches CAPSTONE Spacecraft
Jun 28, 2022 · Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.
How Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon …
Jun 17, 2020 · Thanks to a contract with NASA, Rocket Lab will send a small spacecraft called CAPSTONE into orbit around the Moon to test out how to navigate in lunar orbit and help human missions to the Moon...
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