Electron | CAPSTONE
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
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Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an American aerospace manufacturer with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. The company develops lightweight, cost-effective commercial rocket launch services. The Electron Program was founded on the premise that small payloads such as CubeSats require dedicated small launch vehicles and flexibility not currently offered by traditional rocket systems. Its rocket, the Electron, is a light-weight rocket and is now operating commercially. The company is also producing a variety of spacecrafts and spacecrafts components.
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.
Electron
Height 18.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 162 kN
Diameter 1.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 300 kg
Liftoff Mass 13 Tonnes
Launch Success 59
Consecutive Success 22
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Core
Serial 27
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type EXP
Location PAC
Updates
Nosu
6/28/2022, 10:17:04 AM
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, 9:56:16 AM
Liftoff
Nosu
6/28/2022, 9:00:41 AM
Webcast live
Jay
6/28/2022, 2:47:22 AM
Weather 75%
Jay
6/27/2022, 2:04:03 PM
Adjusting T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
6/26/2022, 3:19:08 PM
NET June 28
Nosu
6/24/2022, 6:12:15 AM
Updating T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
6/23/2022, 2:30:45 AM
NET June 27
Nosu
6/16/2022, 8:32:30 PM
Adding T-0 and setting GO
Nosu
6/8/2022, 9:49:29 PM
NET June 25
Nosu
6/8/2022, 9:41:42 PM
No longer targeting June 13. Reverting to TBD June.
Nosu
6/2/2022, 2:23:39 PM
T-0 confirmed
Jay
5/31/2022, 10:05:31 PM
NET June 13 to allow additional time for final prelaunch checks
Nosu
5/25/2022, 7:23:17 AM
Adding T-0
SwGustav
5/20/2022, 10:35:48 PM
NET June 6th
SwGustav
5/11/2022, 8:54:50 PM
NET May 31st
Cosmic_Penguin
5/2/2022, 10:14:33 PM
NET May 27
Cosmic_Penguin
2/23/2022, 12:47:52 AM
NET Spring
spacevogel
10/13/2021, 7:33:59 PM
Launch is NET March 2022.
Nosu
10/12/2021, 9:06:34 PM
Launch now NET early 2022
spacevogel
8/6/2021, 7:30:08 PM
Launch pad changed from Rocket Lab's launch site in Wallops, Virginia to the one in New Zealand.
Related Events
CAPSTONE TLI Burn and Deployment
July 04, 2022 - 06:56:00 UTC
Photon's HyperCurie engine will re-ignite for a final burn before releasing CAPSTONE on a course with the Moon.
NASA Capstone Pre-Launch News Conference
May 25, 2022 - 19:00:00 UTC
NASA will host a media teleconference with partners Advanced Space and Rocket Lab at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 25, in advance of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) launch.
Related News
7/15/2024, 1:00:00 PM
SpaceNews
NASA’s CAPSTONE is testing “Autopilot” software suite for cislunar operations
7/25/2023, 2:22:56 AM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE working well more than a year after launch
11/21/2022, 7:27:00 PM
NASA
CAPSTONE Forges New Path for NASA’s Future Artemis Moon Missions
11/14/2022, 4:42:23 PM
Arstechnica
The first cubesat to fly and operate at the Moon has successfully arrived
11/14/2022, 10:46:59 AM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE enters lunar orbit
10/8/2022, 7:40:16 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE attitude control restored
9/12/2022, 10:51:02 PM
Spaceflight Now
Ground teams trying to regain control of scouting satellite for NASA’s Artemis moon program
9/11/2022, 8:41:11 AM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE enters safe mode during trajectory correction maneuver
8/8/2022, 9:15:09 PM
SpaceNews
Beck: CAPSTONE demonstrates feasibility of low-cost interplanetary smallsats
7/10/2022, 5:55:24 PM
Spaceflight Now
CAPSTONE probe overcomes radio glitch on course for moon
7/6/2022, 10:24:59 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE communications restored
7/5/2022, 6:44:22 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE suffers communications problem
7/4/2022, 1:32:46 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE heads to the moon
6/28/2022, 6:41:20 PM
Spaceflight Now
CubeSat launches on scouting mission for NASA’s Artemis moon program
6/28/2022, 11:41:24 AM
SpaceNews
Electron launches CAPSTONE lunar cubesat
6/28/2022, 11:31:00 AM
NASA
CAPSTONE Launches to Test New Orbit for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions
6/28/2022, 2:51:24 AM
SpaceNews
Rocket Lab sees payoff from CAPSTONE launch
6/28/2022, 2:43:54 AM
NASASpaceflight
Rocket Lab & NASA launch CAPSTONE to the Moon
6/27/2022, 7:31:22 AM
Spaceflight Now
Mini-mission to blaze NASA’s trail back to the moon
6/23/2022, 8:13:00 PM
NASA
NASA Sets Live Launch Coverage for CAPSTONE Mission to Moon
6/22/2022, 3:35:00 PM
Arstechnica
For the first time, a small rocket will launch a private spacecraft to the Moon
5/19/2022, 6:54:00 PM
NASA
NASA, Partners to Host CAPSTONE Prelaunch Media Teleconference
5/3/2022, 11:43:05 AM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE up next for Rocket Lab
4/14/2022, 2:39:19 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE cubesat ready for cislunar mission
2/22/2022, 12:29:37 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE lunar cubesat mission to launch this spring
10/13/2021, 10:09:12 PM
SpaceNews
CAPSTONE launch delayed to March 2022
8/7/2021, 6:35:04 PM
NASASpaceflight
NASA, Rocket Lab move first Artemis Moon launch – CAPSTONE – to New Zealand
8/6/2021, 11:10:06 PM
SpaceNews
Rocket Lab shifts CAPSTONE launch to New Zealand
2/15/2020, 6:10:00 PM
Spaceflight Now
NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch lunar CubeSat mission
2/15/2020, 2:20:10 PM
SpaceNews
