Electron | CAPSTONE

Electron | CAPSTONE

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
Onenui Station, 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.

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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.

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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 42

Consecutive Success 5

Maiden Flight 2017-05-25

Launch Failures 4


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Core


Serial 27

Status expended

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type EXP

Location PAC


Updates

Nosu

2022-06-28T10:17:04+0000

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

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Nosu

2022-06-28T09:56:16+0000

Liftoff

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Nosu

2022-06-28T09:00:41+0000

Webcast live

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Jay

2022-06-28T02:47:22+0000

Weather 75%

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Jay

2022-06-27T14:04:03+0000

Adjusting T-0

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-06-26T15:19:08+0000

NET June 28

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Nosu

2022-06-24T06:12:15+0000

Updating T-0

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-06-23T02:30:45+0000

NET June 27

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Nosu

2022-06-16T20:32:30+0000

Adding T-0 and setting GO

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Nosu

2022-06-08T21:49:29+0000

NET June 25

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Nosu

2022-06-08T21:41:42+0000

No longer targeting June 13. Reverting to TBD June.

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Nosu

2022-06-02T14:23:39+0000

T-0 confirmed

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Jay

2022-05-31T22:05:31+0000

NET June 13 to allow additional time for final prelaunch checks

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Nosu

2022-05-25T07:23:17+0000

Adding T-0

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SwGustav

2022-05-20T22:35:48+0000

NET June 6th

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2022-05-11T20:54:50+0000

NET May 31st

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-05-02T22:14:33+0000

NET May 27

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Cosmic_Penguin

2022-02-23T00:47:52+0000

NET Spring

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spacevogel

2021-10-13T19:33:59+0000

Launch is NET March 2022.

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Nosu

2021-10-12T21:06:34+0000

Launch now NET early 2022

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spacevogel

2021-08-06T19:30:08+0000

Launch pad changed from Rocket Lab's launch site in Wallops, Virginia to the one in New Zealand.

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Related Events

CAPSTONE TLI Burn and Deployment

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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

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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.

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2023-07-25T02:22:56+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE working well more than a year after launch

2022-11-21T19:27:00+0000

NASA

CAPSTONE Forges New Path for NASA’s Future Artemis Moon Missions

2022-11-14T16:42:23+0000

Arstechnica

The first cubesat to fly and operate at the Moon has successfully arrived

2022-11-14T10:46:59+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE enters lunar orbit

2022-10-08T19:40:16+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE attitude control restored

2022-09-12T22:51:02+0000

Spaceflight Now

Ground teams trying to regain control of scouting satellite for NASA’s Artemis moon program

2022-09-11T08:41:11+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE enters safe mode during trajectory correction maneuver

2022-08-08T21:15:09+0000

SpaceNews

Beck: CAPSTONE demonstrates feasibility of low-cost interplanetary smallsats

2022-07-10T17:55:24+0000

Spaceflight Now

CAPSTONE probe overcomes radio glitch on course for moon

2022-07-06T22:24:59+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE communications restored

2022-07-05T18:44:22+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE suffers communications problem

2022-07-04T13:32:46+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE heads to the moon

2022-06-28T18:41:20+0000

Spaceflight Now

CubeSat launches on scouting mission for NASA’s Artemis moon program

2022-06-28T11:41:24+0000

SpaceNews

Electron launches CAPSTONE lunar cubesat

2022-06-28T11:31:00+0000

NASA

CAPSTONE Launches to Test New Orbit for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions

2022-06-28T02:51:24+0000

SpaceNews

Rocket Lab sees payoff from CAPSTONE launch

2022-06-28T02:43:54+0000

NASASpaceflight

Rocket Lab & NASA launch CAPSTONE to the Moon

2022-06-27T07:31:22+0000

Spaceflight Now

Mini-mission to blaze NASA’s trail back to the moon

2022-06-23T20:13:00+0000

NASA

NASA Sets Live Launch Coverage for CAPSTONE Mission to Moon

2022-06-22T15:35:00+0000

Arstechnica

For the first time, a small rocket will launch a private spacecraft to the Moon

2022-05-19T18:54:00+0000

NASA

NASA, Partners to Host CAPSTONE Prelaunch Media Teleconference

2022-05-03T11:43:05+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE up next for Rocket Lab

2022-04-14T14:39:19+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE cubesat ready for cislunar mission

2022-02-22T12:29:37+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE lunar cubesat mission to launch this spring

2021-10-13T22:09:12+0000

SpaceNews

CAPSTONE launch delayed to March 2022

2021-08-07T18:35:04+0000

NASASpaceflight

NASA, Rocket Lab move first Artemis Moon launch – CAPSTONE – to New Zealand

2021-08-06T23:10:06+0000

SpaceNews

Rocket Lab shifts CAPSTONE launch to New Zealand

2020-02-15T18:10:00+0000

Spaceflight Now

NASA picks Rocket Lab to launch lunar CubeSat mission

2020-02-15T14:20:10+0000

SpaceNews

Rocket Lab wins contract to launch NASA lunar cubesat mission

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