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An artistic rendering of Rocket Lab’s upgraded Photon spacecraft, with CAPSTONE attached | Image: Rocket Lab
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How small launcher Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon next year
An artistic rendering of Rocket Lab’s upgraded Photon spacecraft, with CAPSTONE attached | Image: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is known for launching tiny satellites into Earth, but the company has big plans to venture deeper into space, with its first mission to the Moon set for next year. Thanks to a contract with NASA, Rocket Lab will send a small spacecraft called CAPSTONE into orbit around the Moon to test out how to navigate in lunar orbit and help human missions to the Moon in the future.
It’ll be the most ambitious mission yet for Rocket Lab, which just launched its workhorse Electron rocket on its 12th flight this weekend. In total, the company has put up to 53 spacecraft into space, and so far, all of the those launches have sent satellites into low Earth orbit. But the company has been eyeing ways to push the envelope. “From day one that I...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/21292753/rocket-lab-nasa-capstone-moon-mission-photon-hypercurie-engine
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