CAPSTONE recovered from a communications issue and is preparing for navigation technology demonstrations in lunar…
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NASA’s CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a CubeSat mission designed to test and verify the calculated orbital stability and navigation capabilities around the Moon. Launched in June 2022, CAPSTONE orbits the Moon in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), the same orbit planned for the Lunar Gateway—a future moon-orbiting outpost under NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon and establish a sustainable presence there.
Does anything orbit the Moon? Yes, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and a handful of other…
NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft arrived at its orbit at the Moon Sunday evening, as confirmed by…
CAPSTONE’s Historic Arrival at the Moon Today, November 13, CAPSTONE will reach the Moon and…
On Thursday, October 27, CAPSTONE successfully completed a trajectory correction maneuver, teeing up the spacecraft’s…
On Friday, October 7, CAPSTONE team members successfully executed an operation to stop the spacecraft’s…
On September 8, the CAPSTONE spacecraft executed a planned trajectory correction maneuver. An issue occurred…
On the evening of September 8, the CAPSTONE spacecraft executed a planned trajectory correction maneuver.…
On Thursday evening, September 8, the CAPSTONE spacecraft executed a planned trajectory correction maneuver. Near…
Following the recent update on CAPSTONE, mission owner and operator Advanced Space has released an…
On Thursday evening, September 8, the CAPSTONE spacecraft executed a planned trajectory correction maneuver. CAPSTONE…
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) successfully completed its third…
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft successfully completed its…
After losing communications with CAPSTONE on July 4, the first trajectory correction maneuver, which was…
Mission Team Determines Cause of NASA’s CAPSTONE Communications Issues After its launch on June 28,…
Mission operators have re-established contact with NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft. Mission crews for NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous…
Following successful deployment and start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning…
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), a small CubeSat, about…