NASA Attempts to Regain Control of CAPSTONE Written 15 September 2022
CAPSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise (Illustration). | Credit: Daniel J. Rutter, NASA
The Daily Mail (UK) reports that NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft as of last Thursday “experienced an anomaly that put the probe in a protective ‘safe mode.’” The probe, “which is around the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds, has also been experiencing temperature issues and had problems generating power from its solar panels.” Ground teams “are now trying to stabilise the motion of the small scouting satellite and rescue the mission.”
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