It’s been 12 days since the Artemis I mission took flight. Orion, the spacecraft launched by Artemis, is more than 267,000 miles from the Earth, and roughly 44,000 miles from the moon.
At 8:40 a.m. ET on Saturday, Orion broke the record for the farthest distance traveled from earth of a human-related spacecraft The spacecraft is cruising at a velocity of 1,705 miles per hour.
At 8:40 a.m. ET on Saturday, Orion broke the record for the farthest distance traveled from earth of a human-related spacecraft. The record was previously held by Apollo 13 at 248,655 statute miles from Earth. Apollo carried the first people to the moon over 50 years ago. Orion is slated to reach a maximum distance from Earth of 268,552 miles. It’s expected to achieve that goal sometime Monday.
As of Monday afternoon around 1 p.m. ET, the spacecraft is “in an expected period of no signal. As with all space communications, we need a line of sight to transmit and receive signals, and right now the Moon is between Orion and Deep Space Network tracking stations.”Sign up for NECN newsletters.According to NASA, DRO is a stress test, of sorts.
Artemis Mission Manager Mike Sarafin said,"without crew aboard the first mission, DRO allows Orion to spend more time in deep space for a rigorous mission to ensure spacecraft systems, like guidance, navigation, communication, power, thermal control and others are ready to keep astronauts safe on future crewed missions."
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