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CAPSTONE, unexpected images!
Phil Stooke
post Jan 5 2024, 08:35 PM
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Looks like we don't have a thread for CAPSTONE, the experimental spacecraft put into a near-rectilinear halo orbit to explore its dynamics for use in the future during the Artemis program.

It's not surprising that we wouldn't cover it given its purpose, but rather unexpectedly it turns out to have a little camera on it. Three images have been released so far:

https://advancedspace.com/capstone-primary-mission-success/


https://twitter.com/AdvancedSpace/status/1732139787211976909


They are low resolution images. I thought at first they might be star tracker images taken in Earthshine, but no, they were taken in sunlight. All are in the northern hemisphere where the very elongated orbit is closer to the surface. If imaging is possible at apolune it would show a global view centred on the south polar area.

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- - Phil Stooke   Here is a map of image coverage based on what has ...   Jan 5 2024, 10:09 PM
- - John Whitehead   Here is an article from late 2022 when CAPSTONE en...   Mar 11 2024, 03:02 AM

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