Small spacecraft will play a big role in lunar exploration, including a Moon-bound CubeSat launching later this year. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ...

'In five years, CAPSTONE has gone from a bright idea by a small business to a mission that continues well past its expected end date.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

CAPSTONE is still going strong after more than six months in lunar orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

Advanced Space operates NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment known as CAPSTONE. Credit: Illustration by NASA/Daniel Rutter WASHINGTON — One ...

Stem Ciders' new CAPSTONE Cider was created in partnership with Advanced Space to celebrate the success of the company's satellite in a trailblazing orbit around the moon. A company behind a NASA ...

The NASA-funded CAPSTONE probe has been working in a unique lunar orbit since November 13, 2022, where it’s setting the stage for a future space station and related space-based technologies. The $33 ...

NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite, in an experimental orbit around the moon, has been experiencing communications problems but is now back and running as it should be. The small CubeSat was designed to test ...

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 ...

“Going to the moon is no joke.” So said Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck, just days before the planned launch of CAPSTONE, a watershed mission for both NASA and the private space industry. The mission is ...

NASA's CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th trip around the moon in near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). The agency has just granted CAPSTONE a mission extension after operating in its ...