NASA launches CAPSTONE mission to test new type of lunar orbit

NASA launches CAPSTONE mission to test new type of lunar orbit

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: July 02 2022

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NASA launched a new mission codenamed CAPSTONE to test a new type of lunar orbit, which will help take NASA's Artemis missions to the Moon.
The CAPSTONE stands for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment.
The mission launched at Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.
CAPSTONE is currently in low-Earth orbit, and it will take the spacecraft about four months to reach its targeted lunar orbit.
The spacecraft,about the size of a microwave oven, will study a specific orbit where NASA plans to build a small space station for astronauts to stop at before and after going to the moon’s surface.

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