Fight Works on NASA CAPSTONE CubeSat Mission

A Flight Works propellant pump will play a critical role in Stellar Exploration’s propulsion system on NASA’s CAPSTONE CubeSat. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is a 55-pound spacecraft that will launch later in 2021 and take three months to arrive at its destination, to orbit around the moon for another six months. CAPSTONE’s primary objective is to test and verify the calculated orbital stability of a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHO) around the moon. This will help reduce risk for future spacecraft and NASA’s planned Gateway Lunar outpost, a small space station that will orbit around the moon to provide astronauts with access to the lunar surface.

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