Contact made with NZ-launched spacecraft

Updated July 7 2022 - 11:26am, first published 11:22am
NASA has restored communications with a rocket launched from New Zealand's Mahia peninsula.
NASA has restored communications with a rocket launched from New Zealand's Mahia peninsula.

Contact has been restored with a $US32.7 million ($A48.2 million) spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, NASA says.

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