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Tim Hanlon

NASA loses contact with satellite sent in plan to put astronauts back on Moon

Contact has been lost with a NASA satellite that was intended to orbit the Moon and is part of a new project to once again put astronauts on the lunar surface.

The US space agency admitted the bad news on Tuesday afternoon after the small Capstone (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) satellite had launched successfully on June 28.

The 55-pound satellite successfully broke free from the Earth's orbit and was on the right course to reach the Moon's orbit by mid-November.

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