CAPSTONE spacecraft in lunar sunrise, illustration
Illustration of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft facing the Sun. This lunar orbiter will be the first CubeSat (a low cost miniature satellite) to fly in cislunar space, the orbital space near and around the Moon. CAPSTONE launched on the 28th of June 2022 and will test a navigation system that will measure its distance to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) without using ground stations., by Daniel Rutter, NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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