Company
Advanced Space
USA · builds for the Moon
Advanced Space operated flown CAPSTONE (2022 Electron→Photon into NRHO. NASA ops ended ~Jun 2026) and is NASA prime for CAPSTONE 02 (NET 2027, LV unpublished). NASA Ames hired Advanced Space on 24 July 2026 as prime, owner, and operator of CAPSTONE 02.
Hardware
Two CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft
Hardware · CAPSTONE 02, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment 02, flies two identical spacecraft of about 400 kg (882 lb) each around the Moon in 2027. · CAPSTONE 02Chemical propulsion
Hardware · Stellar Exploration supplies the chemical propulsion system on both CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft, which performs lunar orbit insertion and then the rendezvous and proximity manoeuvres that bring one spacecraft up to the other. · CAPSTONE 02Radios
Hardware · Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory supplies the CAPSTONE 02 communications system: the direct-to-Earth link and the crosslink between the two spacecraft. · CAPSTONE 02Jobs
CAPSTONE (Advanced Space / NASA)
CAPSTONE is a NASA CubeSat operated by Advanced Space, first spacecraft to fly and characterize NRHO (Gateway-class near-rectilinear halo orbit). · nasa.govCAPS nav (Advanced Space)
Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) peer-to-peer navigation demonstrated on CAPSTONE relative to LRO. · nasa.govCAPSTONE 02 (Advanced Space for NASA)
Two identical ~400 kg-class spacecraft. · nasa.govTwo 400 kg spacecraft (Terran Orbital)
Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company, designs and builds both identical 400 kg (882 lb) CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft. · nasa.govCargo
CAPSTONE 02 identical 400 kg spacecraft pair
CAPSTONE 02, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment 02, flies two identical spacecraft of about 400 kg (882 lb) each around the Moon in 2027. · CAPSTONE 02 · NET 2027Space Dynamics Laboratory communications on CAPSTONE 02
Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory supplies the CAPSTONE 02 communications system: the direct-to-Earth link and the crosslink between the two spacecraft. · CAPSTONE 02 · NET 2027Stellar Exploration chemical propulsion on CAPSTONE 02
Stellar Exploration supplies the chemical propulsion system on both CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft, which performs lunar orbit insertion and then the rendezvous and proximity manoeuvres that bring one spacecraft up to the other. · CAPSTONE 02 · NET 2027Sources
This is the public record. Jobs and flights a source named.