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Share with friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > < p > < p > news on July 5, Monday local time, the U.S. capstone cube satellite successfully left Earth orbit and began to fly to the moon. This is also part of NASA's astronaut lunar landing program The capstone cube satellite is only the size of a microwave oven. Six days ago, it was launched from the Mahia peninsula of New Zealand by the electron rocket of the rocket laboratory. Due to the very little fuel used in the cruise, it will take four months for the satellite to reach the lunar orbit

Peter Beck, founder of the rocket laboratory, said in an interview that his excitement was beyond expression

"this may take some time to understand. It took us two and a half years before and after this project, which is very difficult to implement." "So it's absolutely shocking to see all this come together tonight and see the spacecraft heading for the moon." < p > Baker said that the cost of this mission is relatively low. NASA estimated that it was $32.7 million, marking the beginning of a new era of space exploration

Baker said, "at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, rockets and spacecraft that can reach the moon, asteroids, even Venus and Mars can be built." "This is an unprecedented crazy ability."

if the rest of the mission is successful, capstone cube satellite will send important information back to the earth in the next few months, becoming the first satellite to orbit the moon in a new orbit. This kind of orbit is called "near linear halo orbit" (nrho), which looks like a stretched egg shape. One end of the orbit is close to the moon and the other end is far away from the moon NASA plans to put a space station called "moon gate" into this orbit as part of the Artemis lunar landing program, so that astronauts can reach the surface of the moon from the space station Baker said that the advantage of the new orbit is to minimize the use of fuel and allow the satellite or space station to maintain uninterrupted contact with the earth < p > on June 28, the rocket laboratory electron rocket carrying a spacecraft called "photon" was launched from New Zealand and separated from each other nine minutes later. The "photon" spacecraft flew with capstone cube satellite for six days, during which the spacecraft engine was ignited regularly, and the orbit was farther and farther away from the earth

on Monday, the last engine of the "photon" spacecraft ignited, and the spacecraft broke away from the earth's gravity as a whole, and put the satellite into orbit to the moon. At present, the plan of the rocket laboratory is to let the 25 kg capstone cube satellite fly over the moon first and return to the new lunar orbit on November 13. During the flight, capstone CubeSat will use a small amount of fuel to correct its orbit < p > Baker said that they would decide how to deal with the photon spacecraft in the next few days. It has completed its task and still has a little fuel. "We can use it to accomplish many very cool tasks," Baker said

this mission is carried out by NASA in cooperation with two private enterprises, the rocket laboratory headquartered in California and the advanced space company headquartered in Colorado, which owns and operates the capstone cube satellite. (Chenchen)

2023-03-22 10:04:54