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nitpicker

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Tue Jul 5, 2022, 02:07 PM Jul 2022

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe goes silent on its way to the moon [View all]

https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-moon-cubesat-communication-loss

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe goes silent on its way to the moon
By Mike Wall published about 2 hours ago

The CAPSTONE team is working to understand the problem and how to fix it.

The 55-pound (25 kilograms) NASA probe ceased communicating with its handlers yesterday (July 4), shortly after it deployed successfully from Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft bus and began its long trek to the moon.

"The spacecraft team currently is working to understand the cause and re-establish contact. The team has good trajectory data for the spacecraft based on the first full and second partial ground station pass with the Deep Space Network," NASA spokesperson Sarah Frazier wrote in an emailed statement today (July 5).
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