NASA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that communication with the CAPSTONE mini-satellite to the Moon has resumed.
As reported by Ukrinform, this is mentioned on the NASA blog.
“Mission operators have re-established contact with the NASA Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft,” the US agency said. Said.
NASA also promised to provide more details on the matter later on.
A few days ago, it was noted that NASA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers lost contact with the CAPSTONE mini-satellite.
As Ukrinform reports, on June 28, the American company Rocket Lab launched the Electron launch vehicle with NASA’s CAPSTONE mini-satellite.
The 25-kilogram satellite lost contact with engineers shortly after leaving Earth’s orbit on July 4.
CAPSTONE is going to the Moon to test orbital stability, which NASA plans to use for the future Gateway Space Station.