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Daniel Fischer 4d ago

At the top of the hour an #ArtemisII L-2 Countdown Status News Conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3AyQ766vc - according to the timeline https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-countdown/ the countdown should begin 15 minutes from now; check https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/ for updates.

NASA's Artemis II L-2 Countdown Status News Conference (March 30, 2026)

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Daniel Fischer 4d ago

At the top of the hour the #ArtemisII L-1 Countdown Status News Conference - the final one before the planned launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhQJCzhCOw (new on the panel for the first time is launch weather officer Mark Burger).

NASA's Artemis II L-1 Countdown Status News Conference (March 31, 2026)

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Daniel Fischer 3d ago

A permanent webcast of #ArtemisII has begun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs and will first cover tanking and run all the way to splashdown (separate webcasts will cover special mission phases like lift-off). Also live updates will be published on the page https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ just set up.

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) roc...

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Since this one will certainly be archived (not sure about the permanent webcast), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo is the NASA webcast specifically for the #ArtemisII launch. The crew is already in the capsule - this had been their walk-out: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2086875691887758 and https://www.facebook.com/scott.schilke.1/posts/pfbid0261UbknbRbYWXenoR8DgC3GcDDH4RRL6FDgoW13vycnXUz4Tq5oz1yXLbzcYuPjMjl

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

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What a chaotic launch broadcast for an historic mission ... here is the only lift-off full view, visible merely for a brief fraction of a second. Anyway, Orion and ESM are in Earth orbit now!

The first (NASA) photograpg of the #ArtemisII launch published: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55182696113/in/album-72177720331487648

The best view from the botched #ArtemisII NASA launch webcast: the separation of the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (with the Orion, not visible) from the Core Stage, seen from the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter - scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ for a sequence of nine screenshots from the whole ascent.

And now an #ArtemisII post-launch press conference on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhH05U_Zds

NASA’s Artemis II Postlaunch News Conference (April 1, 2026)

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Daniel Fischer

The best view from the #ArtemisII mission so far came at noon UTC today when a solar-wing-mounted camera broastcast this view of Earth some 70,000 km away next to the ESM engines for a while. The Orion and the ESM are on their way back to perigee now - and around 23:45 UTC the trans-lunar injection burn is expected.

After a successful 5 minutes 55 seconds Translunar Injection Burn the daily #ArtemisII press conference should come at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Pq35gm4qA

NASA’s Artemis II Daily News Conference (April 2, 2026)

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The first orbital media event with the #ArtemisII crew is happening right now, live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

And so #ArtemisII delivers ... the dark side of the Earth last night, illuminated by the full Moon, with a bright atmospheric arc indicating where the Sun is hiding and aurora in several places. While beyond Earth at 5 o'clock you see the zodiacal light and Venus and many stars. A bit noisy but something never imaged before AFAIK - the Apollo era photographic film wasn't up to this. From https://x.com/NASA/status/2040059770237849635 while https://x.com/NASA/status/2040059740848283920 shows a fraction of the Earth's dayside.

By popular demand here is the full-moon-lit night image of Earth from #ArtemisII in a rotated (NW now up) and zoomed-in version, now directly from https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/ - the technical data has https://nitter.net/Erdayastronaut/status/2040105622046118282 and there is also a version with much shorter exposure at https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2040114101670523381 and a half-Earth at https://nitter.net/NASA/status/2040114160529179103 while the view with the window frame is at https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000191

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Daniel Fischer 22h ago

Today's daily #ArtemisII Mission Update briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLvqX2q8w - in Q&A we learned that contact has been made to only two of the four CubeSats deployed so far, the German one https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]nd.de/116329959429900989 not among them. Anyway, here is a cool timelapse of the deployment as seen in the sky: https://bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.bsky.social/post/3mimb3zb5gs2i

Daniel Fischer 7h ago

There is now some lunar surface detail visible in #ArtemisII photographs showing the Moon behind the Orion: from the JSC album https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72177720307234654/with/55186770575 which should also be monitored for new mission images dropping.

Dr. Dan Killam 23h ago

@cosmos4u

Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈22h ago

@cosmos4u in space there is no up