Job

CAPSTONE (Advanced Space / NASA)

Mixed build · Advanced Space for NASA · CAPSTONE

CAPSTONE is a NASA CubeSat operated by Advanced Space, first spacecraft to fly and characterize NRHO (Gateway-class near-rectilinear halo orbit).

Who built it

BuilderAdvanced SpaceMixed build · Advanced Space for NASA

BuyerNASA

In this suite

CAPS nav (Advanced Space)

Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) peer-to-peer navigation demonstrated on CAPSTONE relative to LRO. · Advanced Space

CAPSTONE 12U bus (Terran Orbital)

Terran Orbital designed and built the CAPSTONE 12U CubeSat platform flown to NRHO in 2022. · Terran Orbital

Chip-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

Cross-link radio (Tethers Unlimited)

Tethers Unlimited, Inc. · Tethers Unlimited

Hydrazine 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

Iris 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

Flights

CAPSTONE2022-06-28 · CAPSTONE 12U