Electron Flight 27 | CAPSTONE
CAPSTONE launched NASA's 25-kilogram lunar-pathfinder spacecraft with Rocket Lab's Lunar Photon upper stage. Photon used a sequence of Earth phasing orbits and a trans-lunar injection before releasing CAPSTONE on a low-energy transfer toward the Moon, where the spacecraft would demonstrate operations and autonomous navigation in the near-rectilinear halo orbit planned for Gateway.
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- Aliases
- CAPSTONECislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ExperimentElectron F27Electron Flight 27
- Name
- Electron Flight 27 | CAPSTONE
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- CAPSTONE launched NASA's 25-kilogram lunar-pathfinder spacecraft with Rocket Lab's Lunar Photon upper stage. Photon used a sequence of Earth phasing orbits and a trans-lunar injection before releasing CAPSTONE on a low-energy transfer toward the Moon, where the spacecraft would demonstrate operations and autonomous navigation in the near-rectilinear halo orbit planned for Gateway.
- End Date
- 2022-07-04
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Successfully launched CAPSTONE and deployed it from Lunar Photon onto a ballistic lunar transfer
- Program
- CAPSTONE
- Start Date
- 2022-06-28
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- Creation Time
- July 19, 2026 at 04:22:03 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 04:22:03 UTC
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