Questions tagged [capstone]
CAPSTONE: Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment is a small 25 kg spacecraft that will go into a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon, the same orbit proposed for the lunar Gateway.
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How much does it cost to build terrestrial ground station capable of controlling satellites orbiting the moon?
I'm noobie in space exploration and I want to carry out market research to find out how much it costs to build a terrestrial groundstation to control satellite missions that are in lunar orbit.
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NASA CAPSTONE Radiation shielding
What solutions in radiation shielding or radiation effect mitigation were made on the NASA CAPSTONE mission? Specifically, anything related to radiation shielding is of interest.
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After CAPSTONE inserted to "highly efficient ballistic lunar transfer trajectory" by Lunar Photon; to what separate orbit for its safe disposal? How?
NASA Ames's feature CAPSTONE’s CubeSat Prepares for Lunar Flight says
CAPSTONE will use a hydrazine-fueled propulsion system during most of its three- to four- month journey to the Moon. This line of ...
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Is there a fairly detailed outline of CAPSTONE's "highly efficient ballistic lunar transfer trajectory" from LEO to lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit?
NASA Ames's feature CAPSTONE’s CubeSat Prepares for Lunar Flight says
CAPSTONE will use a hydrazine-fueled propulsion system during most of its three- to four- month journey to the Moon. This line of ...
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What is actually happening in this full mission rehearsal of CAPSTONE's propulsion hardware?
NASA Ames's feature CAPSTONE’s CubeSat Prepares for Lunar Flight says
CAPSTONE will use a hydrazine-fueled propulsion system during most of its three- to four- month journey to the Moon. This line of ...
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What makes CAPSTONE-1's eight hydrazine thrusters so "super small, high-performance"? How do they work without any tank pressurization?
The NASA Ames Feature Innovative Propulsion System Gets Ready to Help Study Moon Orbit for Artemis
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CAPSTONE’s journey to the Moon will take about three months, starting with its launch to low-...
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How many cubesat U's is CAPSTONE really?
Wikipedia's CAPSTONE(spacecraft); Spacecraft says:
The orbiter is a 12-unit CubeSat
but looking at the images in the new NASA video NASA 2021: Let's Go to the Moon I see artwork that shows Capstone ...
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How many times will the Photon fire its Curie in order to "reach the right spot" to deploy CAPSTONE towards the Moon?
The Verge's How small launcher Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon next year says (though this has since been addressed†):
Photon is going to need it all in order to get NASA’s ...
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Could the Electron launch a cubesat to Mars
Could the Electron in combination with it's kickstage deliver any meaningful mass to Mars, ie; a 2kg cubesat or is it unable to reach the required velocities even with no payload. Rocketlab are ...
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How will NASA's software for autonomous navigation in cis-lunar space be tested; what information is processed, what outputs evaluated?
note: it's been a year and a half and Capstone is scheduled to be launched soon, so perhaps there is more information available now?
NASA news item NASA Funds CubeSat Pathfinder Mission to Unique ...
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