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Launched 2022-06-28 09:55:52 UTCRocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Success
Reached Lunar Orbit
Worldwide
73rd
orbital launch attempt in 2022
Rocket Lab
4th
launch this year
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
119 d 13 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
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.
Launches
98
Successful
94
96%
Landings
7
of 9
Upcoming
60
scheduled
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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
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Liftoff
Nosu
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Webcast live
Nosu
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Weather 75%
Jay
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Adjusting T-0
Jay
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NET June 28
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating T-0
Nosu
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NET June 27
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adding T-0 and setting GO
Nosu
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NET June 25
Nosu
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No longer targeting June 13. Reverting to TBD June.
Nosu
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T-0 confirmed
Nosu
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NET June 13 to allow additional time for final prelaunch checks
Jay
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Adding T-0
Nosu
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NET June 6th
SwGustav
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NET May 31st
SwGustav
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NET May 27
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Spring
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch is NET March 2022.
spacevogel
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Launch now NET early 2022
Nosu
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Launch pad changed from Rocket Lab's launch site in Wallops, Virginia to the one in New Zealand.
spacevogel
Height
18m
Diameter
1.2m
To low Earth orbit
300kg
Liftoff thrust
162kN
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