CAPSTONE Goes the Distance for NASA’s Artemis Program

CAPSTONE achieved its highest altitude – a point known as apogee – at 1.538 million km from Earth. The pathfinding lunar satellite’s max apogee beats previous Terran Orbital vehicle distances by many orders of magnitude.

Terran Orbital Concludes Final Launch Preparations For LunIR

Terran Orbital has concluded final launch preparations for LunIR. The groundbreaking lunar satellite will launch aboard NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) as part of the Artemis I mission. The rocket is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center on August 29 at 8:33 a.m. E.T. LunIR will take images of the lunar surface with a new infrared imager that could be useful in supporting future NASA planetary and lunar exploration efforts.