On the eighth day of the Artemis I mission, NASA’s Orion spacecraft continues to travel farther away from the Moon as it prepares to enter a distant retrograde orbit. The orbit is “distant” in the sense that it’s at a high altitude from the surface of the Moon, and it’s “retrograde” because Orion wi
Artemis I is the first integrated flight test of NASA’s deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: NASA/Liam Yanulis’s Orion spacecraft continues to travel farther away from the Moon as it prepares to enter a.
Flight Day 7, Orion’s Optical Navigation camera captured the far side of the Moon, as the spacecraft orbited 81.1 miles above the surface, heading for a Distant Retrograde Orbit. Orion uses the optical navigation camera to capture imagery of the Earth and the Moon at different phases and distances, providing an enhanced body of data to certify its effectiveness under different lighting conditions as a way to help orient the spacecraft on future missions with crew.
While in transit to the distant retrograde orbit, engineers conducted the first part of the propellant tank slosh development, called prop slosh, which is scheduled during quiescent, or less active, parts of the mission. In the propellant slosh test, flight controllers fire the reaction control system thrusters when propellant tanks are filled to different levels.
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