a tiny NASA spacecraft launches

 CAPSTONE is perhaps the first launch in NASA’s Artemis program on June 28, 2022 . The agency doesn’t have any experience with what it’s like to operate a vehicle there. This mission, called CAPSTONE.

    CAPSTONE

A microwave oven–sized CubeSat weighing just 55 pounds will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique elliptical lunar orbit

ABOUT SPACECRAFT

So over the next four months, CAPSTONE will get to the Moon through a route known as ballistic lunar transfer, or BLT.

ballistic lunar transfer

> Verify the characteristics of a cis-lunar    near rectilinear halo orbit. > Demonstrate spacecraft-to-spacecraft    navigation services. > Lay a foundation for commercial support.

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Mission Objectives:

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