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CAPSTONE 02 Aims to Map Moon-Earth Gravitational Ballet for Lunar Missions

NASA has completed the first CAPSTONE mission and awarded CAPSTONE 02 to Advanced Space to test complex maneuvers and docking in the Earth–Moon three-body environment. The 2027 launch will involve two small satellites performing formation flying in cislunar space to help NASA, Artemis IV and future lunar operations plan for docking, navigation and operations near the Moon, while signaling growing commercial and Space Force interest in the region.

via Jalopnik|

#capstone #cislunar #docking

space6 months ago•70 min saved

Most cislunar satellite orbits from 1 million simulations fail to stay stable over years

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists used two supercomputers to simulate about 1 million trajectories of cislunar satellites between Earth and the Moon. While roughly 54% remained stable for at least a year, only about 9.7% stayed stable over a six-year span — amounting to around 97,000 stable orbits. The results, published in 2025 in Research Notes of the AAS and shared on arXiv, underscore the complexity of predicting cislunar dynamics due to the Moon’s and Earth’s gravitational influences and solar effects, but the data are open for future research on space infrastructure and orbit selection.,

via Live Science|

#cislunar #orbits #satellites

space6 months ago•13 min saved

NASA weighs Starship option for Gateway logistics alongside Dragon XL

NASA says Gateway logistics are at a crossroads, weighing SpaceX's Dragon XL against a Starship-based approach, with a policy direction after Artemis II expected to determine next steps; the agency has funded multiple cislunar transport studies and aims to demonstrate logistics deliveries by several companies to foster a broader Gateway logistics market, despite earlier budget pauses.

via SpaceNews|

#cislunar #dragon-xl #gateway