CAPSTONE
An illustration of CAPSTONE, a 12-unit cubesat that will test lunar navigation technologies and operations in the orbit planned for the lunar Gateway.

NASA has awarded a contract to a small business for the development of a cubesat designed to demonstrate the use of the unique orbit planned for the agency’s lunar Gateway.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...