Nasa’s Capstone mission successfully separated from its launch vehicle Monday morning, setting the 55-pound small satellite on a trajectory to rendezvous with the Moon later this year. Unlike the ...

CAPSTONE is on track for a Nov. 13 arrival in lunar orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe has bounced ...

NASA engineers had a nearly two-week battle with a space probe refusing to respond to commands. "The spacecraft remained overall healthy and on-course throughout the issue, sending telemetry data back ...

The Capstone team is now working to find out why communication was lost in the first place. It appears to have been a combination of a command error and a software ...

NASA's experimental CAPSTONE cubesat mission has been circling the moon for more than 450 days, testing a unique orbit that will be used for NASA's future moon-orbiting space station. According to the ...

An issue has occurred with NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite, currently on its way to orbit around the moon. The satellite is now in safe mode while NASA teams work to figure out the issue and find a solution ...

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Despite some tense moments on its way to the moon, NASA has confirmed that the CAPSTONE CubeSat has successfully completed its first orbit insertion maneuver. The achievement puts NASA another step ...

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 ...

Communications have been reestablished with the CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) spacecraft. Advanced Space, which owns and operates ...

A small NASA-financed spacecraft launched from New Zealand on Tuesday, kicking off the space agency’s plans to send astronauts back to the moon in a few years. The spacecraft, called CAPSTONE, is ...

The space agency created CAPSTONE to be the first spacecraft to enter a peculiar, elliptical lunar orbit, formally known as the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). "Hanging almost like a necklace from ...