Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's CAPSTONE mission, which will chart a new orbit around the moon which will hopefully be used for a future crewed lunar space ...

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said the CAPSTONE mission pushed the limit of Electron’s capabilities. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — The successful launch of a NASA lunar cubesat mission was the ...

Short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, the CAPSTONE satellite will perform an important role for NASA as it will become the first to test the ...

“Going to the moon is no joke.” So said Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck, just days before the planned launch of CAPSTONE, a watershed mission for both NASA and the private space industry. The mission is ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, is celebrating the successful arrival of the ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully launched CAPSTONE, a ...

CAPSTONE, a lunar cubesat developed by Advanced Space for NASA, will launch in the fourth quarter on an Electron rocket from New Zealand, not Virginia as originally planned. Credit: Advanced ...

Almost five months after a successful launch by Rocket Lab, the CAPSTONE spacecraft has reached its lunar destination - a unique orbit around the Moon where the future Gateway space station will ...