NASA’s CAPSTONE on the way to the Moon

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Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft successfully fired its HyperCurie engine on 4 July 2022, at 06:56 UTC, sending NASA’s CAPSTONE CubeSat on a ballistic lunar transfer orbit. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat will be the first satellite to operate in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit around the Moon.
Credit: NASA/Rocket Lab
#CAPSTONE Ballistic Lunar Transfer Insertion
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Awesome, all the best to Rocketlab & NASA. I hope the lunar Gateway, moon decend would be a success. :-)

utkuerkan
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sadly CAPSTONE just suffered a major malfunction

SkylordLuke
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When will it arrive at the desired orbit?

deutandev