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Artemis I Flight Day 15 – Team Polls “Go” For Distant Retrograde Orbit Departure

By |2022-11-30T22:05:00-05:00November 30th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

art001e000669 (Nov. 27, 2022) On flight day 12 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays captured the Moon as Orion travels in distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.The Artemis I mission management team met today to review the overall status of the flight test [...]

Artemis I – Flight Day 15: Team Polls “Go” For Distant Retrograde Orbit Departure

By |2022-11-30T22:05:00-05:00November 30th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

art001e000669 (Nov. 27, 2022) On flight day 12 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays captured the Moon as Orion travels in distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.The Artemis I mission management team met today to review the overall status of the flight test [...]

NASA Responds to Independent Review of Earth System Observatory

By |2022-11-30T10:16:00-05:00November 30th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA shared a response Wednesday on an independent review board established to assess plans and goals for the next generation of Earth-observing satellites: NASA’s Earth System Observatory, a cutting edge suite of spacecraft that will forward understanding of our changing planet.

Artemis I — I Flight Day 14: Deep Space Testing Continues

By |2022-11-29T17:35:00-05:00November 29th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

art001e000606 (Nov. 24, 2022) On flight day 9, the inside of Orion shows the display of the Callisto payload. Callisto is Lockheed Martin’s technology demonstration in collaboration with Amazon and Cisco, testing voice-activated and video technology that may assist future astronauts on deep space missions.Engineers continued with the jet firing development flight test objective [...]

Artemis I — Flight Day 13: Orion Goes the (Max) Distance

By |2022-11-28T20:45:00-05:00November 28th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

(Nov. 28, 2022) On flight day 13, Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth during the Artemis I mission when it was 268,563 miles away from our home planet. Orion has now traveled farther than any other spacecraft built for humans.NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached the farthest distance from Earth it will travel during [...]

Artemis I – Flight Day 12: Orion Star Trackers, Reaction Control Thrusters Tested 

By |2022-11-27T18:18:00-05:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

art001e000479 (Nov. 24, 2022) – On flight day 9, NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured imagery looking back at the Moon from a camera mounted on one of its solar arrays. The spacecraft is enroute to a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.On the 12th day of the Artemis I mission, team members conducted another planned [...]

Artemis I – Flight Day 11: Orion Surpasses Apollo 13 Record Distance from Earth

By |2022-11-26T17:22:00-05:00November 26th, 2022|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

On flight day 11, NASA’S Orion spacecraft captured imagery looking back at the Earth from a camera mounted on one of its solar arrays. The spacecraft is currently in a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon.On day 11 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continues its journey beyond the Moon after entering a distant [...]

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