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CAPSTONE Spacecraft Launch Targeted No Earlier Than June 6

The capstone spacecraft with solar panels open on either side is lit on one side by the sun. The spacecraft floats in front of a half-darkened lunar surface, with the Earth bright and small in the distant background.

NASA, Rocket Lab, and Advanced Space are currently targeting no earlier than June 6, 2022, for the launch of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. We will continually evaluate the date for the first target launch attempt within the launch period, which extends to June 22.