Contact Restored With NASA Spacecraft Headed to Lunar Orbit

Rebecca Rogers, systems engineer (L), takes dimension measurements of the Capstone spacecraft at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. in Irvine, Calif., on April 2022. Dominic Hart/NASA via AP

WASHINGTON—NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit.

Contact was lost after one successful communication and a second partial one on Monday, after the spacecraft left Earth’s orbit on its way to the moon, the space agency said.