NASA lost contact with the lunar probe launched a week ago

NASA lost radio contact with its CAPSTONE space probe, which was supposed to test the stability of its orbit.

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According to NASA, the loss of communication occurred on July 4, 2022. The outage occurred after the spacecraft separated from the Rocket Lab Photon upper stage.

In an updated press release, NASA said theyreceived good data on the trajectory of CAPSTONE and that there is enough fuel on board the spacecraft to delay work with it for several days while NASA engineers try to find the problem and restore radio contact.

Launched June 28 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket,The 25 kg CAPSTONE satellite is on a nine-month mission to confirm the stability of the complex 3D Near Rectangular Halo Orbit (NRHO) that will be used for the Gateway Space Station, scheduled to launch in November 2024.