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In a development that's thrown a spanner in the works of its US$37.2-million Artemis moon mission, NASA has lost radio contact with its Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat space probe.

The CubeSat is the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, also known as CAPSTONE. The satellite left Earths orbit Monday, marking an important milestone on its planned

NASA has reestablished contact with one of its satellites that stopped communicating on its way to the moon.

NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft is now traveling to the moon following its separation with Rocket Labs' Proton spacecraft bus in Earth's orbit.

NASA has lost contact with one of its satellites after it broke free of the Earths orbit on the way to the moon.

Just Launched! Microwave-Sized Satellite to Test Unique Orbit Around the Moon @NASA

California: NASA’s CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar space station built by the agen

The mission launched at 5:55 a.m. Eastern Day Time on Rocket Labs Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.

NASA launched a new mission codenamed CAPSTONE on Tuesday to test a new type of lunar orbit, which will help take NASAs Artemis missions to the Moon.

/PRNewswire/ -- NASAs CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is...