NASA’s Lunar Capstone Mission: Done But Not Over | Aviation Week

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Mark Carreau
July 13, 2026

NASA's Capstone mission

Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter

HOUSTON—NASA’s extended Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) mission, the first U.S. commercial lunar mission and one that pioneered operations in a highly elliptic near rectilinear halo orbit (HALO) around the Moon has concluded. Capstone…

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America’s space program through news reporting.

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