Meet CAPSTONE, NASA’s New Lunar Pathfinder

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, will be the first spacecraft to fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA’s future Artemis lunar outpost Gateway. Its six-month mission will help launch a new era of deep space exploration. Multiple partner businesses contributed to CAPSTONE with support from NASA's small business programs. The spacecraft was built and tested by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., a Terran Orbital Corporation, operated and managed by Advanced Space, and will be launched by Rocket Lab USA, Inc. Learn more: http://www:nasa.gov/CAPSTONE Video credit: NASA’s Ames Research Center Music Provided by Universal Production Music: Pillow Talk by Andrew Joseph Carpenter NASA's Ames Research Center is located in California's Silicon Valley.