Rocket Lab's Moon mission: The NZ-based staff describe how they'll get a NASA satellite into lunar orbit. The Photon will then ferry Nasa's Capstone satellite into lunar orbit. An artist impression of a Rocket Lab Photon ferrying a Nasa's Capstone satellite inot lunar orbit. It will be the first of three interplanetary missions Rocket Lab has announced so far. Rocket Lab currently has around 600 staff - around two-thirds in NZ - with a hiring drive underway that should see it hit 700 in the next year or so.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 06, 2021 20:40 UTC