Rocket Lab is planning to launch the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission from its operational launch pad at Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula, and New Zealand is set to host the first launch of the Artemis Program, as reported by news website. The launch is scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2021 and is also the first lunar launch mission for Rocket Lab.
“Flexible is not a word usually used to describe lunar missions but operating two launch complexes gives us the freedom to select a site that best meets mission requirements and schedule,” Peter Beck, CEO and Co-Founder, Rocket Lab, was quoted as saying.
“Our team is immensely proud to be launching one of the first pathfinding missions to support NASA’s goal of delivering a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon. We’ve teamed up with the NASA Launch Services Program on previous Electron missions to low Earth orbit, so it’s exciting to be working with them again to go just a bit further than usual… some 380,000km further,” added Beck.
For Rocket Lab to fly Electron rockets from Virginia, the system needs to be certified by NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. In an earlier press call, Beck was quoted as saying, “(AFTS) is taking a lot longer than we all expected, but keeping an eye on the longer prize (of AFTS at Wallops’ range).”
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