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CAPSTONE Completes Successful Maneuver, Teeing Up Moon Orbit (News Release)

The CAPSTONE spacecraft successfully completed a trajectory correction maneuver on Thursday, October 27, teeing up the spacecraft’s arrival in lunar orbit on November 13.

CAPSTONE is no longer in safe mode following an issue in early September that caused the spacecraft to spin. The team identified the most likely cause as a valve-related issue in one of the spacecraft’s eight thrusters. The mission team will design future maneuvers to work around the affected valve, including the two remaining trajectory correction maneuvers scheduled before CAPSTONE’s arrival in orbit at the Moon.

CAPSTONE – short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – is owned by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA. The spacecraft was designed and built by Terran Orbital. Operations are performed jointly by teams at Advanced Space and Terran Orbital.

Source: NASA.Gov

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