10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
...other Artemis elements - an international and commercial Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of NASA’s Artemis programme - CAPSTONE will help reduce risk for future spacecraft by validating innovative navigation technologies and verifying the dynamics...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... for diverse, mission-based satellite solutions. In 2022, we launched two satellites into lunar orbit: CAPSTONE and LunIR. The CAPSTONE satellite was developed for Advanced Space and NASA’s Artemis programme, which is creating a new path...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... designed for lunar and interplanetary missions, including the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon for NASA in early 2021...Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO),...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... system will be the first economically viable sector of the econosphere to be established, enabling everything that follows. The capstone will be space solar power, tapping into the enormous worldwide energy market and providing benefits to billions...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... students Cody Halminiak, Dylan Leigh, Kimberly Luna, Ryan Owen, Kristian Peterson, and Christopher Washburn in their Capstone Engineering Design Course). System design Rockets alone cannot deliver massive amounts of tonnage beyond GEO The...
