A small satellite is about to set the stage for a full moon station. The Artemis program, which is seeking to return humans to the Moon later this decade, is hoping for the launch of the CAPSTONE satellite on Monday.
rocket lab's electron rocket will take off from the private company's launch complex 1 in New Zealand The helicopter was used to catch the falling booster rocket. 6 a.m. is when the CAPSTONE launch is expected to take place. Live coverage starts an hour earlier. You can either watch the action on the website or the live feed below.
The probe's journey will be made available through NASA's Eyes on the Solar System interactive real-time 3D data visualization.
A microwave-sized satellite will be sent to the moon by the Cislunar autonomous positioning system technology operations and navigation experiment. The planned lunar gateway is a small space station that is meant to allow for a long-term human presence on the moon.
NASA says that the pull of gravity from the Moon and Earth will keep the craft in a stable position around the moon. The proposed lunar space station will be able to maintain a constant line of communication with Earth due to the fact that it will need less fuel than conventional circles. Colorado-based Advanced Space is the owner and operator of CAPSTONE, which will be used by NASA to test its models.
The CAPSTONE satellite will be released from the upper stage of the Electron rocket six days after it is launched. The rest of the trip will be performed by the 55 pound cubesat. The orbital dynamics of CAPSTONE will be tested for six months after it arrives at the moon. The ability to communicate with mission controllers on Earth and wait to have signals relayed from other satellites is one of the things that will be tested by the satellite.
The agency is working on a return to the moon. The fourth and most recent wet dress rehearsal of the space agency's Space Launch System went well and paved the way for a possible launch in August.
A path for a lunar space station could be created by this tiny moon-bound satellite.
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