The microwave-sized CAPSTONE will test a new orbit for NASA's Gateway space station around the moon.
A new orbit at the moon
"We view the CAPSTONE mission as a whole as a valuable precursor not just for Gateway, which we've talked a lot about for CAPSTONE, but also for Orion and the human landing system and the larger architecture," said Nujoud Merancy, NASA's chief of the exploration mission planning office at thein Houston, said in the May briefing."NRHO enables global lunar access, in particular the lunar south pole, which is what we're interested in for the Artemis campaign.
. The $30 million mission is overseen by the company Advanced Space of Colorado, with Terran Orbital's Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems of California building the cubesat. Rocket Lab's Electron booster carrying NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat to the moon stands atop is launch site on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula for a June 27, 2022 launch.
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