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Electron | CAPSTONE
Rocket LabRocket Lab Launch Complex 1B — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- CAPSTONE
- Type
- Planetary Science
- Target orbit
- Lunar Orbit (LO)
- Weather probability
- 75% go
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Electron
- Provider
- Rocket Lab
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
webcasts
launch site
- Pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- Location
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
- Country
- NZL
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Coordinates
- -39.2628, 177.8645