Currently, the CAPSTONE operations mission team has good knowledge of the state and status of the spacecraft. They are in contact with the spacecraft and working towards a solution with support from the Deep Space Network. Additional updates will be provided as they become available. Rocket Lab successfully launched CAPSTONE on a historic pathfinding mission to the moon to support NASA’s Artemis program on June 28. It is a CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit, which is intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar space station. CAPSTONE – short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – is owned by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA. The spacecraft was designed and built by Terran Orbital. Operations are performed jointly by teams at Advanced Space and Terran Orbital.
