After several attempts, CAPSTONE established a crosslink with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to test the CAPS navigation capability.
Goonhilly Earth Station validated lunar telemetry and tracking capabilities for IM-1 by successfully acquiring and tracking NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in an exercise with Intuitive Machines personnel.
ISRO selected the Chandrayaan-3 prime landing site using high-resolution photographs and data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
A NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image released on 2023-05-23 revealed the HAKUTO-R M1 impact site and apparent pieces of debris from the spacecraft.
Advanced Space demonstrated the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) by collecting crosslink measurements between CAPSTONE and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on 2023-05-09.
CAPSTONE operators attempted a 2023-01-18 crosslink test with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter during which LRO received a signal from CAPSTONE but CAPSTONE did not collect ranging measurements from the returned signal.
CAPSTONE will test autonomous navigation software called CAPS, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System, using direct measurements with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The landing site selection paper uses Mini-RF synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter combined with optical images and high-resolution digital elevation models to find flat areas within Shackleton and Shoemaker craters.
CAPSTONE will test a navigation system developed by Advanced Space that measures its absolute position in cislunar space using interaction with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Chandrayaan-2 performed a collision avoidance maneuver on 2021-10-18 to avoid a predicted close approach to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter two days later.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter released images of the Chandrayaan-2 crash site on 2019-12-02.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was scheduled to observe the Vikram landing site on 2019-09-17.
There was coordination between NASA and the Chinese government regarding plans for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to take high-resolution images of the Chang’e-4 landing site on the far side of the moon earlier 2019.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed 330 km east of the Chang’e-4 landing site on 2019-01-30 and returned an oblique image of the Von Kármán crater and the Chang’e-4 lander.
The Commercial Lunar Payload Services program will fund the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in fiscal year 2019.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2009.