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NASA’s Moonbound CAPSTONE Probe Is Stuck in Safe Mode
gizmodo ^
| Geroge Dvorsky
Posted on 09/12/2022 9:25:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
CAPSTONE entered into safe mode during the evening of Thursday, September 8, just as the probe was completing a trajectory correction maneuver. CAPSTONE’s mission team “has good knowledge of the state and status of the spacecraft,” NASA said in a painfully brief statement. “The mission operations team is in contact with the spacecraft and working towards a solution with support from the Deep Space Network. Additional updates will be provided as available.” No further updates have been provided since the statement was published on September 10.
CAPSTONE, or Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, launched to space on June 28 aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The 55-pound (25-pound) cubesat is on a pathfinder mission for NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to build a sustained human presence at and around the Moon.
Once at the Moon, the NASA-funded CAPSTONE will enter into a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO)—a fuel-efficient orbit that takes advantage of neutral gravity points produced by the Earth and Moon. It’s within this gravitationally stable orbit that NASA and its partners are planning to build a lunar space station called Gateway. CAPSTONE, built and designed by Terran Orbital, will serve as an advanced scout to confirm theoretical models about this unique halo orbit.
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: capstone; moon; nasa; probe; rocketlab
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:25:15 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:27:24 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:28:28 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: PIF
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:30:58 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Truth is not hate speech.)
To: BenLurkin
“good knowledge of the state and status of the spacecraft”
Too funny...the status is:
SNAFU.
;-)
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:31:34 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: BenLurkin
Must be running Windows 10.........................
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:32:50 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:35:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:36:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
It beats the blue screen of death that’s for sure
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:38:24 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: cgbg
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:39:21 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: V_TWIN
All it needs is a “You are here.” tag.....................
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:41:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Award the project to Musk! He’ll get it done right!
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:43:07 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: BenLurkin
Yep, you’re supposed to stop when the other party says the “safe word”.
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:43:34 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: BenLurkin
Reboot!
Probably running Windows.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:47:50 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
To: BenLurkin
I bet they forgot to activate the copy of Windows before launch, and they need an active internet connection to fix it.
Maybe Musk can extend Starlink's coverage to help them out.
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posted on
09/12/2022 9:49:16 AM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
To: All
no one would ever use windows in a satellite. i hope.
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posted on
09/12/2022 10:02:43 AM PDT
by
SteveH
(.all)
To: Red Badger
Yep.
The latest win10 update hosed one of my pc’s. All I get is a black screen and mouse pointer.
The workaround is to unplug the power and boot up in diagnostic mode where an automatic repair dumps the update.
2 days later the win10 update happens and I have to do it all over again.
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posted on
09/12/2022 10:24:23 AM PDT
by
sevlex
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
09/12/2022 10:26:36 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
To: BenLurkin
The 55-pound (25-pound) cubesatThat should be 55-pound (25-KG) cubesat ...
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posted on
09/12/2022 10:31:55 AM PDT
by
Fish Speaker
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
To: BenLurkin
Well, I’m not going after it this time.
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