The capstone spacecraft will plan a new path for NASA's lunar orbiting space station gateway, which has just begun its journey On May 9, 2022, it was transported from Terran orbital in Irvine, California to rocket lab launch complex 1 launch site (LC-1) on the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.
Capstone is expected to arrive at the Mahia launch site in the next few days to prepare for launch no earlier than may 2022. It will be launched by rocket lab's electron rocket and use the final stage of lunar photon satellite to send the spacecraft into a near right angle halo orbit (nrho) that has never been tested.
