NASA's Capstone mission will test a unique, unprecedented orbit around the moon for the U.S. space agency's Artemis program. Credit: NASA As power drained from its solar limbs, the tired spaceship ...

CAPSTONE, a lunar cubesat developed by Advanced Space for NASA, will launch in the fourth quarter on an Electron rocket from New Zealand, not Virginia as originally planned. Credit: Advanced ...

U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado (right) discusses the CAPSTONE cis-lunar mission with Jeffrey Parker, chief technology officer of Advanced Space, over a full-size CAPSTONE spacecraft model.

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CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft is checking out a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NHRO), the future location of the Gateway. Image credit: Advanced Space NASA’s Moon mission mouthful, the Cislunar Autonomous ...

The microwave-sized CAPSTONE will test a new orbit for NASA's Gateway space station around the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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A cubesat mission has a big objective to verify a keystone of NASA's future lunar operations. CAPSTONE, short for "Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ...