NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite breaks from Earth’s orbit and heads toward the Moon

NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite breaks from Earth’s orbit and heads toward the Moon

NASA’s grand plan to take humans back to the Moon for the first time in over half a century has taken another step forward. The 55-pound CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) cubesat has broken free of Earth’s orbit and is on its way to the Moon.Rocket Lab launched CAPSTONE on an Electron rocket from New Zealand last week…
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