CAPSTONE launched today (June 28) but won't arrive in lunar orbit until Nov. 13.
vehicle could soon change that). The microwave-oven-sized CAPSTONE, by contrast, lifted off on Electron, a 59-foot-tall launcher designed to give small satellites rides to Earth orbit.
The CAPSTONE team therefore had to get creative, choosing a much more fuel-efficient route to Earth's nearest neighbor. That route — known as a ballistic lunar transfer trajectory — turned out to be quite circuitous and time-consuming. "BLTs are a type of low-energy transfer in which a spacecraft launches 1-2 million kilometers [600,000 to 1.
CAPSTONE's BLT will take it 810,000 miles from our planet before the cubesat is pulled back toward the Earth-moon system,
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