CAPSTONE continues to make its long, slow way to 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 ...

CAPSTONE launched today (June 28) but won't arrive in lunar orbit until Nov. 13. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This little ...

CAPSTONE, a lunar cubesat developed by Advanced Space for NASA, will launch in the fourth quarter on an Electron rocket from New Zealand, not Virginia as originally planned. Credit: Advanced ...

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Rocket Lab has successfully launched NASA's 55-pound CAPSTONE cubesat that will eventually orbit the Moon if all goes to plan. It's a small but important step in NASA's Artemis mission that aims to ...

The 25-kilogram CAPSTONE spacecraft by NASA became the first cube satellite (CubeSat) ever to reach Earth's closest neighbor, the moon. To mark the occasion, NASA published a short statement saying ...

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 ...

NASA's CAPSTONE is a small cubesat with big goals, and now it has gone where no cubesat has gone before, becoming the first small satellite ever to orbit the Moon. After months of a slow, precise ...

CAPSTONE’s 12-Unit CubeSat nears completion. The spacecraft’s S-Band antenna is shown on the right side of the spacecraft. The 16 square-shaped elements on the surface of the flat plate are ...

NASA took its first step today in establishing its Gateway orbital lunar outpost with the launch at 5:55 am EDT of its Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation ...

NASA confirmed late on Sunday that the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft has arrived at its orbit at the Moon. This mission ...

NASA's CAPSTONE venture is coming to the Moon later in the year if it launches by this week for its journey to space and towards the planet's natural satellite. The CAPSTONE is in a CubeSat, a small ...