This Tiny Moon-Bound Satellite Could Carve a Path For a Lunar Space Station

NASA and its partners are seeking to build a lunar space station later this decade as part of the ambitious Artemis program, but before that can happen, a microwave-sized probe will need to perform important duties in a unique and promising lunar orbit.Should all go as planned, the CAPSTONE satellite will launch later this month, and become the first human-built device to operate in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). Zooming around this highly elliptical orbit, the 25-kilogram cubesat —