The tiny Moon satellite is testing a potential orbit for NASA's ambitious lunar Gateway orbital station project.
The orbit is highly elliptical, meaning CAPSTONE flies as close as 11,000 miles from the surface when it flies near one of the lunar poles and as far as 43,500 miles from the other pole.On May 3, as it made a close pass of the Moon's north pole, CAPSTONE captured an image of the lunar surface .CAPSTONE has now spent more than six months in lunar orbit.
For the test, CAPSTONE beamed a signal to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , which was bounced back to allow teams on Earth to record a measurement of the distance and relative velocity of the two Moon satellites.
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