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CAPSTONE
Electron · Planetary Science
2022Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
Mission
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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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Rocket Lab · NASA
- Rocket
- Electron
- Orbit
- LO
- Pad
- Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2 + NASA