Small Satellite Launch Kicks Off NASA’s Next-Generation Lunar Program

June 30, 2022
Capstone spacecraft
The Capstone spacecraft, built by Terran Orbital for Advanced Space, was integrated onto a Rocket Lab Photon satellite bus and launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on June 28.
Credit: Rocket Lab
The kickoff of NASA’s Artemis program began not with the launch of the mighty Space Launch System Moon rocket, which is expected this summer, but rather with a small-satellite launcher making its first mission into deep space. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket had flown 26 times since its May 2017 debut...

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