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OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:09:02-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:09:01-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:09:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:08:59-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians work on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:08:58-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:08:57-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:08:56-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

A close-up view of one of the parts of the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred times higher than [...]

Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission

By |2024-04-03T12:08:54-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Artemis I reached the halfway point of its 26-day mission around the Moon, flying roughly 270,000 miles (434,000 km) from the Earth—farther from our home planet than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has gone before. From Artemis I's launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to [...]

Artemis I Recovery Teams Prepare for Splashdown

By |2024-04-03T12:08:53-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

(Dec. 5, 2022) Recovery teams prepare for the splashdown of Orion on Dec. 11, 2022, off the coast of San Diego, California. The spacecraft will complete its 25.5-day mission by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, where it will be recovered by teams aboard the USS Portland.

Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars

By |2024-04-03T11:55:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The 21st rock core captured by NASA’s Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample – shown being taken here – was cored from “Bunsen Peak” on March 11, the 1,088th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.NASA/JPL-Caltech The [...]

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