Following its historic launch this week, NASA's Orion spacecraft is on its way to the moon for the ArtemisI mission.
Following its historic launch this week, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the moon for the Artemis I mission. The uncrewed craft has fired its engines several times to adjust its trajectory and to put it on course to perform a flyby of the moon next week.
Since its launch early in the morning on Wednesday, November 16, the craft made its first course-correction burn on that same day and its second burn on Thursday, November 17. These burns adjusted the craft’s trajectory as planned for its 25-day mission, traveling around the moon to test out the hardware ahead of planned crewed launches to travel around and to the moon for Artemis missions II and III respectively.
There had been a small issue with star tracker data from the craft, which uses a camera to take images of the stars around the spacecraft so it can orient itself correctly. NASA described some “anomalous” data but said that, “Teams now understand the readings and there are no operational changes.”
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