Terran Orbital Corporation today announced the Terran Orbital-developed CAPSTONE spacecraft successfully arrived in a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) around the Moon ...

CAPSTONE has provided NASA with rapid and low-cost data about operations in its NRHO around the Moon, the same orbit planned for Gateway – a space station that will provide astronauts with ...

Terran Orbital celebrates the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). (Photo Credit: Terran Orbital.) ...

Short for near-rectilinear halo orbit, NRHO was NASA’s pick from hundreds of possible orbits for the Artemis program because it allows for almost continuous communications between Earth and the ...

In NRHO, a vessel passes over the moon’s north pole at an altitude of 47,000 miles (76,000 kilometers), but upon reaching the south pole, it will be just 2,100 miles (3,400 km) above the surface.

The exact orbit that CAPSTONE will be exploring is called a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). That orbit, in the shape of a necklace, will bring CAPSTONE as close as 1,000 miles to the moon's ...

Making History: Terran Orbital-Developed CAPSTONE Enters NRHO Around the Moon by SpaceRef November 14, 2022July 15, 2024 ...

NASA's CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th trip around the moon in near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). The agency has just granted CAPSTONE a mission extension after operating in ...