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NASA’s CAPSTONE Executes New Maneuver, Further Pinpoints Path to Moon (News Release)
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) successfully completed its second trajectory correction maneuver starting at about 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
CAPSTONE will perform several such maneuvers during its four-month-long journey to lunar orbit to refine its trajectory to the Moon, with the next one targeted for late July. CAPSTONE is taking a long but fuel-efficient route to the Moon, flying about 958,000 miles (1.54 million kilometers) from Earth before looping back around to its near-rectilinear halo orbit.
Read more about CAPSTONE’s ambitious mission to the Moon.
Source: NASA.Gov
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