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NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon mission has left lunar orbit and is returning to Earth. On Dec. 1 at 4:53 pm EST, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for one minute and 45 seconds, placing it on a trajectory that will set it to pass close to the … Continue reading Orion spacecraft leaves lunar orbit and heads for home
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission notched up a new record today when it reached the farthest distance from Earth achieved by a human-rated spacecraft, breaking the previous record set by Apollo 13 on April 15, 1970. At about 4 pm EST, the uncrewed Orion spacecr… Continue reading Artemis 1 mission breaks record for farthest human-rated spacecraft
Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has confirmed that the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission has achieved lunar orbit. After an orbital maneuvering engine burn lasting 88 seconds, the spacecraft entered a distant retrograde orbit that is so large i… Continue reading Artemis 1 now in record-breaking lunar orbit
After a successful lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center last Wednesday and a close fly-by of the Moon earlier this week, it had been pretty smooth sailing for NASA’s Artemis I mission so far. Mission control has now experienced a small hiccup, howeve… Continue reading NASA restores contact after Orion mysteriously goes dark for 47 minutes
NASA’s Artemis 1 deep space mission reached a major goal today, as the uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully completed its powered flyby of the Moon. The capsule reestablished communications with the space agency’s Deep Space Network soon after autono… Continue reading NASA’s Artemis 1 uncrewed rehearsal mission flies by the Moon
Lots of space news this week, with the big story being that Artemis I finally blasted off for its trip to the Moon. It was a spectacular night launch, with …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 20, 2022
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After a journey of nearly five months, taking it far beyond the Moon and back, the little CAPSTONE spacecraft has successfully entered into lunar orbit. “We received confirmation that CAPSTONE arri… Continue reading The First Cubesat To Fly and Operate At the Moon Has Successfully Arrived
NASA is pressing ahead with its Artemis I mission, putting some recent setbacks behind it to today schedule another launch attempt. The rocket and spacecraft are pretty much ready to roll, according to the agency, and will be returned to the pad in ear… Continue reading NASA lines up another launch attempt for massive Moon rocket
It’s believed that the Moon formed billions of years ago, from debris from a cosmic collision with Earth. New high-resolution simulations not only illustrate the idea in stunning detail, but reveal that the Moon’s birth might have taken mere hours.Cont… Continue reading Wild simulations of cosmic collisions show the Moon forming in just hours
Look at the full moon! Tonight it may appear larger and more orange than usual, reports Space.com, “taking on a fitting appearance for the fall season and for the build-up to Halloween.”
This is the result of something called the ‘moon illusion’ and t… Continue reading A Strange Pumpkin-Orange Full Moon Rises in the Sky Tonight