Advanced Space has successfully completed the six-month primary mission for CAPSTONE, the first commercial satellite to operate at the Moon. The CAPSTONE mission’s objective is to pioneer a new and […]
Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO)
UPDATE 1: Ready for Falcon 9 push — NASA’s Lunar Flashlight smallsat now set for December 1st launch
When NASA’s Lunar Flashlight launches, the smallsat will start a three month journey, with mission navigators guiding the spacecraft far past the Moon. The smallsat will then be slowly pulled […]
A new path for NASA’s future Artemis Moon missions is forged by CAPSTONE
NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft has completed final maneuvers to place it in its target orbit around the Moon, refining its path in the orbit it arrived to last week — the […]
An Advanced Space CAPSTONE milestone: lunar orbit achieved
Advanced Space has announced that the big day has come and CAPSTONE is at the Moon — CAPSTONE just completed its initial insertion into the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). […]
Advanced Space offers a CAPSTONE mission update
Advanced Space LLC. has completed its fourth trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) for CAPSTONE — TCM-4 was the fourth of six planned maneuvers en route to the Moon, targeting the precise […]
Advanced Space LLC receives the Mission of the Year award for the CAPSTONE mission
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, CAPSTONE, led by Advanced Space, was launched seven weeks ago to perform its historic pathfinding mission to the Moon for […]