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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