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NASA Missions Advance Lunar Exploration
NASA’s TESS exoplanet mission discovered a new world using an unexpected method, while CAPSTONE completed its extended mission testing technologies for lunar navigation. These missions are crucial steps towards sustained human presence on the Moon.
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Scientific American
The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built around
2026-07-06 14:00 UTC
NASA
As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, validated and
2026-07-06 15:00 UTC