CAPSTONE is in a protective safe mode while the mission team troubleshoots the still-mysterious issue.
Artist's illustration of CAPSTONE orbiting the moon. CAPSTONE is scheduled to arrive at the moon on Nov. 13, 2022.Toward the end of a major engine burn on Thursday evening , the 55-pound experienced an anomaly that put the probe in a protective"safe mode," mission team members said.
The glitch"resulted in the vehicle attitude [orientation] rates growing beyond the capacity of the onboard reaction wheels to control and counter," representatives of the Colorado company Advanced Space, which operates the CAPSTONE mission for NASA, wrote in an"The vehicle was attempting to communicate with the ground for approximately 24 hours before any telemetry was recovered," they added.
The mission team continues working to diagnose the problem,"improve the thermal situation" of some of the spacecraft's subsystems and prepare for a coming"detumble" operation. "A successful detumble will result in the vehicle resuming control of its orientation, orienting the solar panels to the sun to fully charge the batteries of the power used during the detumble," the update states."The spacecraft will then orient to the ground and await further instructions. These recovery operations will be further evaluated over the coming days."
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