Rocket Lab Lunar Photon orbital-transfer spacecraft
Lunar Photon is Rocket Lab’s high-energy orbital-transfer spacecraft derived from Photon and the Electron Kick Stage. The CAPSTONE configuration used a pump-fed HyperCurie engine and six days of orbit-raising burns to dispatch a small spacecraft onto a ballistic lunar transfer.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Photon LunarCAPSTONE Lunar PhotonPhoton upper stage
- Family Name
- Lunar Photon
- Full Name
- Rocket Lab Lunar Photon orbital-transfer spacecraft
- Roles
- orbital_transfer
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Lunar Photon is Rocket Lab’s high-energy orbital-transfer spacecraft derived from Photon and the Electron Kick Stage. The CAPSTONE configuration used a pump-fed HyperCurie engine and six days of orbit-raising burns to dispatch a small spacecraft onto a ballistic lunar transfer.
- Dimensions
- Height M
- 1
- Length M
- 1.4
- Width M
- 1.1
- First Flight Year
- 2,022
- Last Flight Year
- 2,022
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- expendable
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 11:58:29 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 11:58:29 UTC
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