As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and advanced these capabilities. Designed to test and validate technologies in lunar orbit, CAPSTONE launched […]
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Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Ames Research Center, Earth's Moon, Goddard Space Flight Center, Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business, Small Spacecraft Technology Program, Space Communications Technology
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July 6, 2026
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