The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a special orbit around the Moon planned for NASAs future Artemis lunar station Gateway. Its six-month mission will assist introduce a new age of deep space expedition. Credit: NASA Ames Research
On Thursday evening, September 8, the CAPSTONE spacecraft performed a planned trajectory correction maneuver. CAPSTONE objective controllers have because acquired telemetry validating that an issue put the spacecraft in safe mode near the end of the maneuver.
Presently, the CAPSTONE operations objective team has excellent knowledge of the state and status of the spacecraft. They touch with the spacecraft and working towards an option with support from the Deep Space Network. Extra updates will be provided as they appear.
Rocket Lab effectively introduced CAPSTONE on a historic pathfinding objective to the moon to support NASAs Artemis program on June 28. It is a CubeSat developed to evaluate a special lunar orbit, which is intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar spaceport station.
CAPSTONE– brief for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment– is owned by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA. The spacecraft was created and built by Terran Orbital. Operations are carried out jointly by teams at Advanced Space and Terran Orbital.
By NASA
September 12, 2022