{"id":61577,"date":"2019-09-16T22:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/advanced-space-to-operate-cubesat-mission-for-nasa\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:22:28","slug":"advanced-space-to-operate-cubesat-mission-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/advanced-space-to-operate-cubesat-mission-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Space to Operate Cubesat Mission for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong>&nbsp;awarded a $13.7 million contract to <strong>Advanced Space<\/strong> of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a cubesat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway \u2013 an orbiting outpost astronauts will visit before descending to the surface of the Moon in a landing system as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis program. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is expected to be the first spacecraft to operate in a near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon. In this unique orbit, the CubeSat will rotate together with the Moon as it orbits Earth and will pass as close as 1,000 miles and as far as 43,500 miles from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>The pathfinder mission represents a rapid lunar flight demonstration and could launch as early as December 2020. CAPSTONE will demonstrate how to enter into and operate in this orbit as well as test a new navigation capability. This information will help reduce logistical uncertainty for Gateway, as NASA and international partners work to ensure astronauts have safe access to the Moon\u2019s surface. It will also provide a platform for science and technology demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting opportunity for NASA to aggressively push forward towards the Moon in partnership with several American small businesses as a vanguard to Artemis and sustained human presence beyond low-Earth orbit,\u201d said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate. \u201cThis mission is highly ambitious in both cost and schedule \u2013 and taking that deliberate risk is part of the objective of this mission \u2013 alongside the rapid technological advancement in cislunar navigation and the opportunity to verify orbital trajectory assumptions and retire unknowns for future missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&nbsp;awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a cubesat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway \u2013 an orbiting outpost astronauts will visit before descending to the surface of the Moon in a landing system as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis program. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}