NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.
So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late Tuesday, with the rocket carrying the satellite reaching space.
Imagine stretching a rubber band back from your thumb. Your thumb would represent the moon and the rubber band the flight path. In this photo released by Rocket Lab, a technician works on a component of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket ahead of the launch on the Mahia peninsula in New Zealand on March 10, 2022. NASA plans to send up a satellite to track a new orbit around the moon which it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. Credit: Rocket Lab via AP
Getting the 25-kilogram satellite into orbit will take more than four months and be done in three stages. Photon will then release the satellite, which has its own small propulsion system but which won't use much energy as it cruises toward the moon over four months, with a few planned trajectory course corrections along the way.
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