NASA's 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 Gateway, a lunar space station built by the agency and its commercial and international partners that will support NASA's Artemis program, including astronaut missions.
After postponing its launch by a day to allow more time to perform final systems checks, the mission, led by Advanced Space, took off aboard a Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 5.55 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
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