small satellite missions
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…
U.S. satellite persists as lunar pathfinder to mitigate risk for future space programs. Westminster, CO – Advanced Space LLC., a leading space tech solutions company, announced that CAPSTONE™ – the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment –…
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…
Serving as an orbital pathfinder for the Gateway, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE™) spacecraft has operated successfully for almost 300 days. During that time, the CubeSat has demonstrated its key functions, entering and maintaining…
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…
It’s been one year since CAPSTONE separated from its launch vehicle to become the first commercial spacecraft operating at the Moon. Advanced Space is grateful to our team members and proud of all their accomplishments! A Rocky Start One year…
Mission in Partnership with University of California Berkeley Space Science Lab and NASA to Launch on Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Westminster, CO – Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, is supporting the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences…
What has been your favorite project at Advanced Space and why? Hands down, it has been CAPSTONE. It has just been such a unique and exciting experience being able to work on developing the mission from a concept into an…
On June 6, Thomas Gardner, Advanced Space’s Director of Engineering, gave a presentation on the recently extended CAPSTONE mission as part of the Colorado School of Mines’ Space Resources Roundtable (SRR). He also discussed some of the future technologies we are supporting…