 Advanced Space will handle overall project management and some of the spacecraft's key technologies, including its CAPS positioning navigation system, while Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Irvine, California, will develop and build the spacecraft platform and its propulsion systems.NASA announced on 14 February 2020, that CAPSTONE will be launched aboard a booster Electron of Rocket Lab from the company's new launch site, Launch Complex-2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Wallops Island, in Virginia, and the launch is scheduled for early 2021.Following a three-month trip to the Moon, the CAPSTONE lunar satellite will spend six months collecting data during this demonstration.