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CAPSTONE 02: NASA Will Launch Two Ships to Test Autonomous Navigation on the Moon in 2027

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Two identical small satellites, of just 400 kilograms of mass, will test in 2027 one of the most critical technologies for the future of lunar exploration: autonomous navigation in the complex schislunar space. NASA has awarded the contract to Advanced Space for the CAPSTONE 02 mission, which expands the achievements of the original pioneer CAPSTONE with a greater ambition: to demonstrate maneuvers of encounter, flight formation and communicatio…
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Two identical small satellites, of just 400 kilograms of mass, will test in 2027 one of the most critical technologies for the future of lunar exploration: autonomous navigation in the complex schislunar space. NASA has awarded the contract to Advanced Space for the CAPSTONE 02 mission, which expands the achievements of the original pioneer CAPSTONE with a greater ambition: to demonstrate maneuvers of encounter, flight formation and communicatio…

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Merca2.es broke the news on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
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