Friday, June 24, 2022

Meet CAPSTONE, NASA’s New Lunar Pathfinder

Meet CAPSTONE, NASA’s New Lunar Pathfinder

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, will be the first spacecraft to fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA’s future Artemis lunar outpost Gateway. Its six-month mission will help launch a new era of deep space exploration. 

Multiple partner businesses contributed to CAPSTONE with support from NASA's small business programs. The spacecraft was built and tested by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., a Terran Orbital Corporation, operated and managed by Advanced Space, and will be launched by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. 

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/capstone


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Video Credit: NASA’s Ames Research Center  

Music Provided by Universal Production Music: Pillow Talk by Andrew Joseph Carpenter  

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: June 24, 2022


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