Contact restored with NASA spacecraft headed to lunar orbit
Rebecca Rogers, systems engineer, left, takes dimension measurements of the CAPSTONE spacecraft in April 2022, at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., in Irvine, Calif. NASA said Tuesday, July 5, that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem. Credit: Dominic Hart/NASA via AP

According to NASA, contact has been restored with its lunar probe, which is headed to the moon.

After a successful communication and a partial one on Monday, contact was lost.

After it was launched from New Zealand, the craft spent a week circling the globe.

This is the location where NASA wants to put its Gateway outpost and the 55 pound satellite is the size of a microwave oven. Before astronauts go to the moon, Gateway would be a good place to start.

The space station is able to stay in constant contact with Earth because of the balance of the gravities of Earth and the moon.

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