Orion is coming home.
A view of the moon from NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as it approaches its final close flyby of the lunar surface on Dec. 5, 2022.
Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington, spoke more poetically during the teleconference about the incredible feats Orion has already performed, such as breaking the human-rated spacecraft distance record."We got to see the Earth transit behind the moon extending beyond the pale of human spaceflight.
That's not to say that every aspect of Orion's maiden voyage is going smoothly. Mission managers also discussed a pair of anomalies the spacecraft encountered in recent days, which include a communication outage and anMission managers described during tonight's teleconference how a site-wide outage at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California caused a four-and-a-half hour disruption in communication between ground controllers and Orion.
Additionally, a power conditioning distribution unit onboard Orion malfunctioned on Sunday , cutting off power to four devices responsible for the vehicle's propulsion and heating subsystems. Power was swiftly restored, however, and NASA"We talked through that today, as a mission management team, and the spacecraft is fine. There's plenty of redundancy on the vehicle," Sarafin said today about the power anomaly.
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