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NASA Loses Contact With Capstone Spacecraft as It Journeys to the Moon

Capstone successfully detached from Earth’s orbit yesterday, but has since dropped out of contact with operators.

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By Alice Tecotzky

After it successfully detached from its orbit around Earth on Monday, NASA operators lost contact with the Capstone spacecraft, which is meant to be on a four-month journey to the moon. Bloomberg reported that a team is trying to figure out why they lost contact and re-establish connection with the unmanned, microwave-sized spacecraft. Capstone’s primary goal is to test out a new orbit around the moon that NASA hopes to use to send astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years.

Read it at Bloomberg

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