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The spacecraft is looking happy and healthy. We have re-established communications with CAPSTONE. "The spacecraft is looking happy and healthy," Advanced said. On Wednesday, Advanced announced on Twitter that it was once again communicating with the Capstone ship. The Capstone spacecraft was built for NASA by Colorado-based Advanced Space, and the company is in charge of operating the mission, alongside California's Terran Orbital, which built the Cubesat platform.
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experienced communications issues while in contact with the Deep Space Network," according to a statement from NASA on Tuesday. "Following successful deployment and start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4. On Monday, the probe was successfully deployed from a Photon upper stage and sent in the direction of the moon.īut then it just stopped talking to Earth. (Capstone is short for the NASA mission officially known as the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment.)Įverything was going great following the probe's launch on June 28 atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster. NASA is back in touch with its microwave-size Capstone spacecraft after the ship's computers gave the agency the silent treatment for a day.