Bellbird
-Oceania-South Pacific
- Location
- New Zealand
Mahia is just 2 hours drive from where I live,
The first lunar mission to take off from NZ has launched successfully. Rocket Lab launched Nasa's Capstone micro-satellite on an Electron rockets from Mahia at 9.55pm tonight.
The Capstone mission will see the rocket placing a small satellite into orbit around the Moon for Nasa in what the US space agency hopes will be a step towards its later launch of a crewed lunar space station and further missions to the Moon’s surface, and potentially Mars
The first lunar mission to take off from NZ has launched successfully. Rocket Lab launched Nasa's Capstone micro-satellite on an Electron rockets from Mahia at 9.55pm tonight.
The Capstone mission will see the rocket placing a small satellite into orbit around the Moon for Nasa in what the US space agency hopes will be a step towards its later launch of a crewed lunar space station and further missions to the Moon’s surface, and potentially Mars
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