A microwave oven–sized CubeSat weighing just 55 pounds will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit as part of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE). As a pathfinder for Gateway, a Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of NASA’s Artemis program, CAPSTONE will help reduce risk for future spacecraft by validating innovative navigation technologies and verifying the dynamics of this halo-shaped orbit.
- The orbit, formally known as a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), is significantly elongated.
- Its location at a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the Moon, offers stability for long-term missions like Gateway and requires minimal energy to maintain.
- CAPSTONE’s orbit also establishes a location that is an ideal staging area for missions to the Moon and beyond. The orbit will bring CAPSTONE within 1,000 miles of one lunar pole on its near pass and 43,500 miles from the other pole at its peak every seven days, requiring less propulsion capability for spacecraft flying to and from the Moon’s surface than other circular orbits.
Recently this was held,
NASA News Conference on Artemis 1 Mission
NASA officials hold a news conference to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?522163-1/nasa-news-conference-artemis-1-mission
Preparing for lift off August 29th of the space launch system rocket that will propel the Orion Spacecraft around the moon and back to earth.
Artemis I as an un crewed flight test. 39B will be the historic launch site.
7.6 million pounds of thrust when the Saturn V launch took off.
Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator states, this one will be 8.8! That's interesting right?
Saturn V holds records for the heaviest payload launched and largest payload capacity to low Earth orbit
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; the lead contractors were Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM. [Wild as HAL from Space Odyssey are all letters just 1 letter ahead for each letter in IBM's acronym].
Interesting as Mama Gates got Bill's foot in the door of IBM as she was on a "charity" board with Jon Opel of IBM.
Also it was Melinda Gate's father, who worked on Apollo missions.
See video footage here of Melinda Gates telling her story.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/melindagates_apollo50-activity-6558372430480498688-zWEy/
According to ARC. . .Aerospace Research Central,
The cislunar environment is about to get much busier and with this increase in traffic comes an increase in the demand for limited resources such as Earth based tracking of and communications with assets operating in and around the Moon. With the number of NASA, commercial, and international missions to the Moon growing rapidly in the next few years, the need to make these future endeavors as efficient as possible is a challenge that is being solved now. Advanced Space is aiming to mitigate these resource limitations by enabling the numerous spacecraft in the cislunar environment to navigate autonomously and reduce the need for oversubscribed ground assets for navigation and maneuver planning.
Advanced Space has partnered with NASA to develop and build the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE); this mission will demonstrate the core software for the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) which is currently being developed in a Phase III of NASA’s SBIR program, and will primarily serve as a pathfinder for Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) operations around the Moon.
The NHRO is the intended orbit for the NASA’s Gateway lunar orbital platform – as such the CAPSTONE mission will validate simulations and confirm operational planning for Gateway while also validating performance of navigation and station-keeping for future operations.
This mission will demonstrate an efficient low energy orbital transfer to the lunar vicinity and an insertion and operations approach to the NRHO that ultimately will demonstrate a risk reducing validation of key exploration operations and technologies required for the future success of NASA’s lunar exploration plans, including the planned human return to the lunar surface.
CAPSTONE will fly a 12U cubesat developed, integrated, and tested by Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems carrying a payload communications system capable of cross-link ranging with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a dedicated payload flight computer for software demonstration, and a camera.
Io T = Internet of things
From Research Gate,
Read the magazine digitally with the Bill Gates interview in here,
https://archive.org/details/george-magazine-february-1997-survival-guide-to-the-future-bill-gates-interview
AUGUST 3, 2022
NASA Briefing on Artemis Mission to the Moon
https://www.c-span.org/video/?522163-1/nasa-briefing-artemis-mission-moon
#Capstone, #NASA, #ArtemisProgram, #IBM, #BillGates, #GeorgeMagazine, #ApolloEleven, #Cubesat, #JFKjr, #MelindaGates, #RaymondFrench
Sources,
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2021-4128
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/saturn-v-rocket-history-facts/
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone
Is Bill Gates trying to Help you or Harm you? Perhaps you should ask women in Kenya given Tetanus shots with sterilization hidden. Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci evidence from the WHO site of working together for a decade on vaccines. Gates came from Money.
Bill Gates Foundation in conjunction with World Economic Forum End of the World AS WE KNOW IT? Fictional outbreak scenario in the Event 201 pandemic sim or plan? Coronavirus Drill in Wuhan prior to outbreak!
2 Peter 3:10
King James Version
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Literal Connections between the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. Sacred Geometry in the Pyramid and the Bible. Did not the Alpha and Omega create the Physics of it All?