{"id":217157,"date":"2022-06-28T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:04:18","slug":"capstone-launches-lunar-orbit","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-detail\/capstone-launches-lunar-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPSTONE Launches for Lunar Orbit"},"author":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_video_cc_file_id":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_audio_cc_file_id":""},"media-tags":[],"read_time":1,"video_cc_url":"","audio_cc_url":"","credits":"","original_date":{"stamp":0,"display":""},"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=225\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"CAPSTONE lifts off\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=225,300 225w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=768,1024 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=300,400 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=450,600 450w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=675,900 675w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=900,1200 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A NASA CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for <a href=\"http:\/\/nasa.gov\/gateway\" rel=\"noopener\">Gateway<\/a>, a lunar space station built by the agency and its commercial and international partners that will support NASA’s <a href=\"http:\/\/nasa.gov\/artemisprogram\" rel=\"noopener\">Artemis<\/a> program, including astronaut missions.<\/p>\n<p>The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or <a href=\"http:\/\/nasa.gov\/capstone\" rel=\"noopener\">CAPSTONE<\/a>, mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 28, 2022, on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: Courtesy of Rocket Lab<\/em><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>The CAPSTONE mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT (09:55 UTC) on Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket from New Zealand.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"CAPSTONE lifts off","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":1041,"height":1388,"file":"2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg","filesize":250118,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=150,150","width":150,"height":150,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=150&h=150&crop=1"},"medium":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=225,300","width":225,"height":300,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=225"},"medium_large":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=768,1024","width":768,"height":1024,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=1024"},"large":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=768,1024","width":768,"height":1024,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=768"},"thumbnail-sm":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=50,50","width":50,"height":50,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=50&h=50&crop=1"},"thumbnail-md":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=100,100","width":100,"height":100,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=100&h=100&crop=1"},"thumbnail-lg":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=200,200","width":200,"height":200,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=200&h=200&crop=1"},"card-xsm":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=300,400","width":300,"height":400,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=300"},"card-sm":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=450,600","width":450,"height":600,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=450"},"card-md":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=675,900","width":675,"height":900,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=675"},"card-lg":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?resize=900,1200","width":900,"height":1200,"filesize":250118,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg?w=900"},"full":{"file":"52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg","width":1024,"height":1365,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"credits":"","original_date":{"stamp":0,"display":""}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/52179773875_6ed0bab2c3_o.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"media-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-tags?post=217157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}