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NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched in June 2022 and became the…
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Terran Orbital Concludes TCM-2 for CAPSTONE
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful execution of CAPSTONE’s TCM-2 burn. The burn occurred in two parts with final success declared on July 26 at 1:45 UTC. As with TCM 1-a and TCM 1-c, this burn confirms the NASA satellite will…
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