Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]
A close-up view of one of the parts of the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred times higher than [...]
On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Artemis I reached the halfway point of its 26-day mission around the Moon, flying roughly 270,000 miles (434,000 km) from the Earth—farther from our home planet than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has gone before. From Artemis I's launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to [...]
(Dec. 5, 2022) Recovery teams prepare for the splashdown of Orion on Dec. 11, 2022, off the coast of San Diego, California. The spacecraft will complete its 25.5-day mission by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, where it will be recovered by teams aboard the USS Portland.
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Description: Recent Artemis I footage captured by rocket cameras during ascent aboard the Artemis I spacecraft. Footage includes live recordings of Artemis I’s Booster Separation, and Artemis I’s Booster Jettison.
Stylized poster for NASA's Artemis II mission
art001m1013340036 (Nov. 30, 2022) On flight day 15 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continued in its distant retrograde orbit beyond the Moon, capturing a video of the Moon from a camera on one of its solar arrays.
The Gateway space station hosts the Orion spacecraft and SpaceX's deep space logistics spacecraft in a polar orbit around the Moon, supporting scientific discovery on the lunar surface during the Artemis IV mission.
On flight day 15 of the Artemis I mission, Orion continued in its distant retrograde orbit beyond the Moon, capturing a snapshot of Earth from a camera on one of its solar arrays.
