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Terran Orbital Celebrates CAPSTONE Spacecraft’s One Year in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit

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Friday, November 17, 2023
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Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ) (“Terran Orbital” or “the Company”), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, celebrates the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO).

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  • Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ) (“Terran Orbital” or “the Company”), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, celebrates the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO).
  • CAPSTONE, designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital and owned by Advanced Space, has demonstrated significant achievements during its mission.
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    Terran Orbital celebrates the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO).
  • The mission's achievements are a testament to the collaborative efforts of the entire CAPSTONE team, reaffirming Terran Orbital Corporation's commitment to advancing the frontiers of space exploration.

Advanced Space's CAPSTONE Operates One Year at the Moon

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Friday, November 17, 2023
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WESTMINSTER, Colo., Nov. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 on-orbit around the Moon for a full year. This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment. As the first company to operate a commercial satellite at the Moon, Advanced Space has gained valuable insights around cislunar operations that can only come from hands-on experience.

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  • This milestone puts the company in an elite category logging over 365 days of continuous operations in the cislunar environment.
  • As the first company to operate a commercial satellite at the Moon, Advanced Space has gained valuable insights around cislunar operations that can only come from hands-on experience.
  • "Space exploration deepens our understanding of planet Earth, the moon, and what lies beyond.
  • Colorado's aerospace economy and Advanced Space are spearheading American innovation to help us maintain our leadership in space," said U.S.

Terran Orbital-Developed CAPSTONE Completes Primary Mission

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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    Terran Orbital-Developed CAPSTONE Completes Primary Mission (Image Credit: Terran Orbital)
    Designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital and led by Advanced Space, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, otherwise known as CAPSTONE, is laying the groundwork for future lunar exploration by demonstrating operations in NRHO.
  • CAPSTONE operations are shared between Terran Orbital and Advanced Space for NASA.
  • CAPSTONE was the first mission to use Morehead State University - this capacity added to DSN was critical to support the mission.
  • “Terran Orbital is thrilled CAPSTONE completed the first six months of its primary mission,” said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell.

Advanced Space Announces Successful Completion of 6-Month CAPSTONE Primary Mission for NASA

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Thursday, May 18, 2023
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Westminster, Colorado, May 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the six-month Primary Mission for CAPSTONE, the first commercial satellite to operate at the Moon.

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  • Westminster, Colorado, May 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the six-month Primary Mission for CAPSTONE, the first commercial satellite to operate at the Moon.
  • CAPSTONE was the first mission to use Morehead State University - this capacity added to DSN was critical to support the mission.
  • “We’re extremely proud that the CAPSTONE mission has reached its primary mission milestone.
  • Navigating to the Moon and in the NRHO has presented a lot of challenges that the mission teams at Advanced Space and Terran Orbital have had to overcome,” said Alec Forsman, Mission Operations Manager for CAPSTONE at Advanced Space.

Advanced Space Leads First Ever Commercial Mission to Operate at the Moon

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Monday, November 21, 2022
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Consistent with the company vision to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space, Advanced Space has worked to support the Nations focus on returning to the Moon.

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  • Consistent with the company vision to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space, Advanced Space has worked to support the Nations focus on returning to the Moon.
  • In partnership with NASA and others, Advanced Space is developing state-of-the-art tools and infrastructure that will support safe operations at the Moon for future missions.
  • Advanced Space will be demonstrating the autonomous spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation software it has been developing in anticipation of increasingly congested operations at the Moon.
  • Providing telemetry, tracking and control services for NASA and commercial space missions and toengage university students in deep space mission operations.

CAPSTONE Goes the Distance for NASA’s Artemis Program

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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The dominance of the Suns gravitational pull enables CAPSTONEs extreme distance as part of a ballistic lunar transfer (BLT) trajectory.

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  • The dominance of the Suns gravitational pull enables CAPSTONEs extreme distance as part of a ballistic lunar transfer (BLT) trajectory.
  • The NRHO is the intended orbit for Gateway, a lunar space station that will support NASAs Artemis program.
  • Terran Orbital is thrilled to guide CAPSTONE through and beyond apogee, said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell.
  • We greatly value our partnership with Advanced Space and are forever grateful to NASA for creating the historic Artemis program.

Terran Orbital Executes CAPSTONE’s Second TCM Burn

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful completion of CAPSTONEs second TCM burn.

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  • Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful completion of CAPSTONEs second TCM burn.
  • Much smaller than the first TCM burn, this second TCM burn demonstrates the spacecrafts ability to perform small and precise maneuvers, a capability that is critical to operations in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO).
  • As with the first TCM burn, Terran Orbital Guidance Navigation and Control systems perfectly performed the maneuver as designed by Advanced Space.
  • The completion of this second TCM burn confirms the spacecraft is capable of performing the small and precise maneuvers Terran Orbital designed it to perform in NRHO.

Terran Orbital Successfully Completes CAPSTONE’s First TCM Burn

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Friday, July 8, 2022
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Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful completion of CAPSTONEs first TCM burn (TCM-1).

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  • Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful completion of CAPSTONEs first TCM burn (TCM-1).
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    CAPSTONE flies toward cislunar space - the orbital space near and around the Moon (Credit: Terran Orbital Corporation)
    Terran Orbital Guidance Navigation and Control systems perfectly performed the maneuver as designed by Advanced Space.
  • Terran Orbital is thrilled to have successfully completed CAPSTONEs first TCM burn, said Terran Orbital Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Marc Bell.
  • Terran Orbital is a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries.

CAPSTONE Satellite, Designed and Built by Terran Orbital, Successfully Deploys from Rocket Lab Lunar Photon into Lunar Transfer Orbit

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Thursday, July 7, 2022
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Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful deployment of the CAPSTONE spacecraft from a Rocket Lab Lunar Photon into a Lunar Transfer Orbit.

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  • Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP ), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, today announced the successful deployment of the CAPSTONE spacecraft from a Rocket Lab Lunar Photon into a Lunar Transfer Orbit.
  • CAPSTONE is the first satellite to demonstrate operations of a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.
  • CAPSTONEs deployment follows six days of orbit-raising burns around Earth aboard Rocket Labs Lunar Photon spacecraft bus, since launching on an Electron launch vehicle from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mhia, New Zealand.
  • For real-time updates on the CAPSTONE mission, follow Terran Orbital, NASA, Rocket Lab, and Advanced Space on Twitter.

Rocket Lab Moon Mission for NASA a Success

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Monday, July 4, 2022
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The CAPSTONE mission marks the beginning of humanitys return to the Moon through NASAs Artemis program and were incredibly proud that Rocket Lab has played a key role in that, said Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck.

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  • The CAPSTONE mission marks the beginning of humanitys return to the Moon through NASAs Artemis program and were incredibly proud that Rocket Lab has played a key role in that, said Rocket Lab founder and CEO, Peter Beck.
  • First collaborative mission between Rocket Lab and Advanced Solutions Inc, a Colorado-based flight-software company acquired by Rocket Lab in late 2021.
  • Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company with an established track record of mission success.
  • Rocket Labs Photon spacecraft platform has been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as the first private commercial mission to Venus.