CAPSTONE — launch
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CAPSTONE is a small lunar spacecraft operated by Advanced Space for a NASA-supported navigation and orbital-demonstration mission. It launched on June 28, 2022 and was sent to a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon. The mission was designed to test the behavior of that orbit and autonomous navigation techniques using measurements between spacecraft, supporting the development of future operations in cislunar space.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPSTONE. Related NASA reference: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology.html#2022.
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- CAPSTONE
- Organization
- Rocket Lab Ltd.
- Vehicle
- Electron
- Location
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula
- Country
- NZ
- Outcome
- Successful
Context and qualifications
Launch code: DS. Source references: Wire; -.
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — CAPSTONE (opens in a new tab) — Factual synthesis based on the cited Wikipedia and NASA pages; original editorial wording. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — CAPSTONE (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — CAPSTONE (opens in a new tab)