Lost Contact With The Spacecraft En Route To The Lunar Orbit Test
NASA announced Tuesday that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the Moon to test a tilted lunar orbit, but the agency’s engineers hope they can fix the problem. After one successful communication and a second partial one on Monday, the space agency said it could no longer communicate with the spacecraft, named Capstone. Engineers are trying to find the cause of the communications outage and are optimistic they can fix it, NASA spokeswoman Sarah Fraser said Tuesday....