Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS)

Advanced Space to Extend the CAPSTONE Mission with NASA

October 7, 2024

The award prolongs the CAPSTONE™ mission. CAPSTONE™ is currently flying at the Moon and recently marked its 100th orbit in the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). WESTMINSTER, CO, 6 October 2024 – Advanced Space’s pioneering Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations…

CAPSTONE™ Mission Accomplished and More Left to Go!

May 29, 2024

From completing the mission to exceeding expectations, our spacecraft flew its 18-month mission at the Moon and will continue flying. WESTMINSTER, CO, 29 May 2024 – A project that began as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project celebrated an…

Interview—Anthony Zara, Advanced Space Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation Engineer

May 7, 2024

What is the most interesting part of your current project? I would be hard-pressed to say anything other than the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) since that has been where I have focused the majority of my time and effort…

Advanced Space’s CAPSTONE Operates One Year at the Moon

November 17, 2023

CAPSTONE Contributes to a Resilient U.S. Space Architecture in Cislunar Space Westminster, CO — Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, announced today that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has successfully operated…

Advanced Space Team Members Visit JPL to Discuss Accomplishments, Opportunities for Collaboration

July 27, 2023

Three key members of the CAPSTONE™ team—Program Manager and Operations Lead Alec Forsman, Mission Design Lead Ethan Kayser, and Principal Investigator and Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham—visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to share lessons learned from the mission, as well as to…

Advanced Space Team Visits NASA Goddard to Share Progress, Future Opportunities

June 20, 2023

Advanced Space CEO Bradley Cheetham and two team members of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) team, Alec Forsman, Mission Operations Lead and Ethan Kayser, Mission Design Lead, returned to the place where it all began—NASA…