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Artemis I Flight Day 22 - Orion Continues on its Journey Back to Earth
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
Engineers conducted the second part of the propellant tank slosh development flight test, called propellant slosh, which is scheduled during quiescent, or less ...
Impact-induced formation of microscopic magnetite first confirmed in Chang'E-5 lunar soil
Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)
The study was published in Nature Communications on Nov. 23. Magnetite is essential in planetary science when addressing questions concerning ancient magnetic f...
Methods for building lunar landing pads may involve microwaving moon soil
Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)
These pads will have to stop lunar dust and particles from sandblasting everything around them at more than 10,000 miles per hour as a rocket takes off or lands...
NASA's Orion spaceship slingshots around Moon, heads for home
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
At its nearest point, the uncrewed capsule flew less than 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the surface, testing maneuvers that will be used during later Artemis m...
Orion set for final Lunar flyby
Dec 05, 2022 (SPX)
Shortly after acquiring signal with the Deep Space Network's Canberra ground station at 12:41 a.m. CST, Orion experienced an issue with a power conditioning dis...
NASA delivers first flight hardware to ESA for Lunar Pathfinder
Dec 05, 2022 (SPX)
NASA and ESA plan to launch Lunar Pathfinder via a future Commercial Lunar Payload Services delivery. In addition to testing navigation capabilities, Lunar Path...
Artemis lunar flyby: Orion is coming home
Dec 05, 2022 (ESA)
Over the last 20 days in space, Orion has ventured farther from Earth than any human-rated spacecraft ever before, and the Artemis spacecraft is now truly on it...
Artemis I Flight Day 15 - Team Polls Go For Distant Retrograde Orbit Departure
Dec 01, 2022 (SPX)
"We are continuing to collect flight test data and buy down risk for crewed flight," said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager. "We continue to learn how the s...
ESA ground stations to support first commercial Moon landing
Dec 01, 2022 (ESA)
The journey will take three to five months and see the spacecraft venture out to deep space and back again. Once on the Moon, it will conduct a host of experime...
SpaceX postpones mission to put Japanese lander on Moon
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
A Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to blast off at 3:37 am (0837 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX said on Twitter that the delay was to carry ...
NASA Orion capsule reaches farthest distance from Earth in lunar orbit
Nov 29, 2022 (UPI)
"Just over an hour ago, Orion set another record clocking its maximum distance from Earth at 270,000 miles," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced at 5 p.m. ...
Orion Star Trackers, Reaction Control Thrusters Tested: Artemis I Flight Day 12
Nov 28, 2022 (SPX)
Engineers hope to characterize the alignment between the star trackers and the Orion inertial measurements units, both of which are part of the guidance, naviga...
Orion surpasses Apollo 13 record distance from Earth: Flight Day 11
Nov 27, 2022 (SPX)
Orion surpassed the distance record for a mission with a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and back to Earth, at 7:42 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26. Th...
China offers intl cooperation opportunity via Chang'e lunar missions
Nov 26, 2022 (XNA)
The CNSA has announced that it will carry scientific instruments from France, Italy and the European Space Agency/Sweden on the Chang'e 6 mission's lander, and ...
Artemis I enters Moon orbit
Nov 26, 2022 (ESA)
The Artemis I mission is uncrewed but is being used to demonstrate and test the Orion spacecraft's capabilities, as well as allowing mission control to get used...
NASA's Orion spacecraft set to enter lunar orbit
Nov 26, 2022 (UPI)
Orion will perform an engine burn at 4:52 p.m. EST on Friday, which should send it into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon. The distant term refers to t...
NASA Orion spacecraft enters lunar orbit: officials
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a ...
Orion Exits the Lunar Sphere Of Influence
Nov 24, 2022 (SPX)
Orion exited the gravitational sphere of influence of the Moon Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 9:49 p.m. CST at a lunar altitude of 39,993 miles. The spacecraft will reach...
European Service Module powering Orion to the Moon and back
Nov 24, 2022 (ESA)
After liftoff at 07:47 CET (06:47 GMT, 01:47 local time) on 16 November, the European Service Module unfolded its 7-m solar wings to start generating electricit...
CAPSTONE forges new path for NASA's future Artemis lunar mission
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
The spacecraft now is in the operational phase of its pathfinding mission, during which it will test an orbit key to future Artemis missions and demonstrate new...
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