NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe goes silent on its way to the moon

Space.com ^ | 7/5/2022 | Mike Wall

[Houserino]

Uh oh, I hope this works out. Really don't want any more moon delays.

[NeverTyranny]

Me too. I hope they establish contact.

[SaveFerris]

It’s texting. 📱

Or the phone is turned off 📴.

😜

[SaveFerris]

In before Houston....?

[dljordan]

” Uh oh, I hope this works out. Really don’t want any more moon delays. “

Gut NASA.

[BushCountry]

[piasa]

Didn’t NASA say the other day that a rocket of unknown origin struck the moon?

[SaveFerris]

Somebody should freeze 🥶 that guy

[brownsfan]

“Gut NASA.”

You mean that muslim outreach thing isn’t bringing in top quality “diverse and inclusive” scientists?

I agree. NASA is a social experiment, not a center of excellence.

[SuperLuminal]

Would like to see a picture of the mission team...

[DoughtyOne]

Amen!

Fifty freakin years, and yesterday the NASA clown said we
should consider China wanting to take control of the Moon.

I hope we paid this guy in cans of Alpo.

[Mouton]

The CAPSTONE team is working to understand the problem and how to fix it.

Call Musk

[PIF]

Was about 3 days to the moon, now 4 months.

[Houserino]

It’s cause it was fired on a tiny rocket and is using lots of small boosts to raise its orbit instead of a few big ones. It’s pretty tiny.

[skimbell]

That's what I was thinking.
What's it doing, rowing itself to the moon?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This seems like a really Get the Latest Celebrity News interesting. I hope What’s up with CERN? that they are able to correct Did you know that Black Holes can collapse? this problem soon.

[PIF]

If its tiny, why not send a bunch of them? Else what’s the bother? Seems like a waste of money to launch one tiny sat, unless they used a tiny rocket.

[Houserino]

They used Rocket Labs Electron rocket which is quite small. Half the size of a Falcon9, or more. Super cheap too, this mission is for the cheap to scout out how this new moon orbit plan they have will work.

[Tallguy]

There are low-energy transfer orbits that are economical in terms of fuel. Sounds like this was the choice for this cubesat. You can scale everything down and lighten the fuel requirement drastically. But it takes more time.

[butlerweave]

It escaped NASA’s diversity ,LOL