NASA’s CAPSTONE – short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – is in good health following a communications issue that began in late January, and ...

A microwave oven-size spacecraft took off on a four-month voyage to the moon Tuesday, the first step in a relatively low-cost pathfinder mission for NASA's planned Gateway lunar space station, a key ...

NASA’s CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for Gateway, a ...

A 55-pound satellite will become the first spacecraft to test-drive the unique lunar orbit chosen for NASA’s planned Gateway space station—all while demonstrating the space agency’s embrace of smaller ...

GOLDEN, Colorado – Sent moonward over two years ago, NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment — shortened to CAPSTONE — is busy as ever, presently ...

NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has achieved a major milestone in space exploration, successfully capturing its first images of the Moon and testing a groundbreaking navigation technology. The images, ...

This new cubesat is prepping the way for the future lunar missions. NASA launched a tiny satellite into space early Tuesday morning on a mission to test out a never-before-attempted orbit around the ...