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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 (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.
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 52
Consecutive Success 15
Maiden Flight 2017-05-25
Launch Failures 4
Serial 27
Status expended
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 1
Landing Attempt No
Landing Success Unknown
Type EXP
Location PAC
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
Nosu
2022-06-28T09:56:16+0000
Liftoff
Nosu
2022-06-28T09:00:41+0000
Webcast live
Jay
2022-06-28T02:47:22+0000
Weather 75%
Jay
2022-06-27T14:04:03+0000
Adjusting T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-06-26T15:19:08+0000
NET June 28
Nosu
2022-06-24T06:12:15+0000
Updating T-0
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-06-23T02:30:45+0000
NET June 27
Nosu
2022-06-16T20:32:30+0000
Adding T-0 and setting GO
Nosu
2022-06-08T21:49:29+0000
NET June 25
Nosu
2022-06-08T21:41:42+0000
No longer targeting June 13. Reverting to TBD June.
Nosu
2022-06-02T14:23:39+0000
T-0 confirmed
Jay
2022-05-31T22:05:31+0000
NET June 13 to allow additional time for final prelaunch checks
Nosu
2022-05-25T07:23:17+0000
Adding T-0
SwGustav
2022-05-20T22:35:48+0000
NET June 6th
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NET May 31st
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-05-02T22:14:33+0000
NET May 27
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Spring
spacevogel
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Launch is NET March 2022.
Nosu
2021-10-12T21:06:34+0000
Launch now NET early 2022
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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Photon's HyperCurie engine will re-ignite for a final burn before releasing CAPSTONE on a course with the Moon.
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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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