{"id":1539420,"date":"2022-07-05T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539420"},"modified":"2022-07-05T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:50:38","slug":"nasa-satellite-off-to-the-moon-after-breaking-free-from-earths-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-satellite-off-to-the-moon-after-breaking-free-from-earths-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Satellite Off To The Moon After Breaking Free From Earth\u2019s Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-satellite-off-to-the-moon-after-breaking-free-from-earths-orbit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Just days after its launch, a satellite roughly the size of a microwave oven has broken away from its orbit around Earth and is now headed directly toward the moon.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s all part of the plan. The satellite \u2014 dubbed CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) \u2014 was launched a week ago from New Zealand\u2019s Mahia Peninsula by Rocket Lab. The satellite was set to orbit Earth for a while, then break away and use next to no internal energy as it makes it ways to the moon over the next four months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably going to take a while to sink in,\u201d Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/space-launches-exploration-science-technology-peter-beck-d2748e44d427941f1352312ac954dd5d\">told<\/a> The Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s been a project that has taken us two, two-and-a-half years and is just incredibly, incredibly difficult to execute. So to see it all come together tonight and see that spacecraft on its way to the moon, it\u2019s just absolutely epic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project cost $33 million, which, in the world of space exploration, is pocket change. \u201cFor some tens of millions of dollars, there is now a rocket and a spacecraft that can take you to the moon, to asteroids, to Venus, to Mars,\u201d Beck said. \u201cIt\u2019s an insane capability that\u2019s never existed before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, CAPSTONE will use its own propulsion and the Sun\u2019s gravity to navigate the rest of the way to the Moon, a four-month journey that will have CAPSTONE inserting into its near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon on Nov. 13,\u201d NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/artemis\/2022\/07\/04\/capstone-leaves-earth-orbit-headed-to-the-moon\/#:~:text=CAPSTONE%20communicates%20with%20Earth%20via,the%20Moon%20on%20Nov.%2013.\">said<\/a> in a press release. \u201cThe gravity-driven track will dramatically reduce the amount of fuel the CubeSat needs to get to its target orbit around the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is set to orbit the moon and send back data once it arrives there. The small effort is part of a bigger project as NASA \u201cplans to put a space station called Gateway into the orbital path, from which astronauts can descend to the moon\u2019s surface as part of its Artemis program,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Electron rocket that launched June 28 from New Zealand was carrying a second spacecraft called Photon, which separated after nine minutes. The satellite was carried for six days in Photon, with the spacecraft\u2019s engines firing periodically to raise its orbit farther and farther from Earth,\u201d the wire service reported.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental craft is part of move to create spacecraft that use little fuel. \u201cThere\u2019s a number of really cool missions that we can actually do with it,\u201d Beck said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after its launch, a satellite roughly the size of a microwave oven has broken away from its orbit around Earth and is now headed directly toward the moon. But don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s all part of the plan. 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