NASA launches CAPSTONE to evaluate new orbit for Artemis Moon Missions

The first step of NASA’s CubeSat mission to the Moon has been successfully completed in space. It was built to test a novel lunar orbit.

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has been launched on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex, New Zealand.

CAPSTONE is currently in low orbit of Earth and will take four months to reach its targeted lunar orbit.