A closer look at the revised plans for the Artemis lunar lander, featuring a modular design with an extended stay habitat, a reusable ascent stage, and increased payload capacity.

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The best images from Artemis II
"Our favorite images from humanity's return to the Moon."

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Not Bad For an iPhone

I was a little disappointed in the streaming video coming back the Artemis 2 mission, which looked like a pale comparison to that of SpaceX, right from the launch.

Closer to the Moon it was then hampered by the limited communications bandwidth of the Deep Space Network which saw priority understandably given to telemetric data from the spacecraft’s systems. So even though we knew the astronauts were doing nothing but taking photos and video we couldn’t it see live, with really one view from an external Go-Pro camera mounted on a solar panel.

Now that they’re back on Earth of course, we’re seeing what they saw, and this one is very cool, simply because it’s exactly the sort of stuff we layman capture everyday with our cellphones, including the shaky, out-of-focus start to the video, as Reid Wiseman can’t help just being a tourist with the view of a lifetime as Artemis 2 swings around to the far side of the Moon and the Earth sets, cutting off all comms.

https://twitter.com/astro_reid/status/2046009031613907029?s=20

Better Sweaty Palms than Burned Ones

In about three hours time the Artemis 2 mission will begin its final phase as the Orion spacecraft, Integrity, slams into the Earth’s atmosphere on its return from the Moon, at some 25,000 mph.

Live coverage via the Youtube stream from NASA, embedded below, and there are great shots of the Earth already to be seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

But, as with the launch, don’t expect the same sort of video coverage we’ve come to expect from Starship re-entries, where it’s been continuous, HD all the way through to splashdown. That’s been enabled by SpaceX having multiple cameras mounted outboard and a telecoms system that beams signals directly into space to their Starlink constellation of satellites.

No, like so many other aspects of this mission, what we’ll experience will be a repeat of the days of Apollo.

The section of the spacecraft holding that camera will detached before re-entry, there are no other outboard cameras mounted and even if there were, the ship has no way of sending transmissions back through the cloud of plasma to the ground, and of course Orion’s design long pre-dated the advent of Starlink, so there are no such antennae on the top of the ship.

So we’re going to get some six minutes of communications blackout during which we will have no way of knowing what is happening to the ship and crew until they’re basically down to a few hundred mph speed, readying the parachutes for deployment.

And that not knowing is important here because of the known problems with the Orion’s heatshield, which I’ve covered here.

Artemis II JUST broke the human distance from Earth record previously set by Apollo 13!

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Artemis II - Daily Agenda

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L'édition #4 d'ASpaceMR Flash célèbre 2024 en mettant en avant les faits spatiaux marquants de 2023, et le programme pour 2024.

Le dossier aborde l'incident de la station Skylab en 1973

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