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CAPSTONE
2022-06-28 · CAPSTONE 12U · flown
NASA
Flown CAPSTONE (2022 Electron→Photon).
First CubeSat to fly near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon, the orbit planned for Gateway, and tested CAPS navigation against LRO.
$13,700,000 public package award.
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CAPS nav (Advanced Space)
Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) peer-to-peer navigation demonstrated on CAPSTONE relative to LRO. · Advanced Space · NASACAPSTONE (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). · Advanced Space · NASACAPSTONE 12U bus (Terran Orbital)
Terran Orbital designed and built the CAPSTONE 12U CubeSat platform flown to NRHO in 2022. · Terran Orbital · NASAChip-scale atomic clock (Orion Space Solutions)
Orion Space Solutions provided the Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) hardware on flown CAPSTONE for the Iris one-way DSN ranging / timing experiment. · Orion Space Solutions · NASACross-link radio (Tethers Unlimited)
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. · Tethers Unlimited · NASAElectron + Photon launch (CAPSTONE)
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket and Photon stage launched CAPSTONE toward its lunar halo orbit. · Rocket Lab · NASAElectron launch FFP for CAPSTONE (~$9.95M)
Rocket Lab Electron firm-fixed-price launch contract class ~$9.95M public for CAPSTONE (separate from Advanced Space CubeSat contract). · Rocket Lab · SpaceNewsHydrazine propulsion (Stellar Exploration)
Stellar Exploration supplied the pump-fed monopropellant hydrazine propulsion system on the flown 2022 CAPSTONE 12U, trajectory correction, NRHO insertion, and stationkeeping. · Stellar Exploration · NASAIris radio + nav firmware (Space Dynamics Laboratory)
Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory provided the Iris deep-space radio and navigation firmware on flown CAPSTONE, supporting DSN links and one-way radiometric experiments with the CSAC. · Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory · NASALunar Photon transfer stage (CAPSTONE)
Rocket Lab Lunar Photon raised CAPSTONE's orbit and sent it toward the Moon on the path to NRHO (2022). · Rocket Lab · Rocket LabRelated flights
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- CAPSTONE - NASA NASA
- What is CAPSTONE? NASA
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- Advanced Space Leads First Ever Commercial Mission to Operate at the Moon Advanced Space
- The Small Businesses Behind CAPSTONE Are Paving Our Path to the Moon NASA, 7 June 2022
- NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies NASA, 6 July 2026
- CAPSTONE Arrives to Orbit at the Moon NASA
- NASA Awards Contract to Launch CubeSat to Moon from Virginia NASA
- CAPSTONE | Rocket Lab Rocket Lab
- Launches | Rocket Lab Rocket Lab
- Capstone terranorbital.com
- Rocket Lab sees payoff from CAPSTONE launch SpaceNews, 29 June 2022
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