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Watch Live as Orion Performs Final Lunar Flyby and Sets a Course for Home
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has executed its final close flyby of the Moon, in what is expected to be the last major course correction of the Artemis 1 mission Update: 4:20 am AEDT: Orion successfully completed its return flyby burn, which began at 3:43 am AEDT and lasted for 3 minutes and 27 seconds. The maneuver…
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NASA Cancels Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Due to Cost Overruns
Citing cost overruns, NASA has made the decision to terminate the GeoCarb mission, a satellite that would’ve measured greenhouse gas emissions above the Americas. The space agency will now consider newer, alternative ways of monitoring climate-impacting pollution.
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NASA’s Orion Poised to Set Milestone Distance Record Today
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission continues to go well, with Orion entering into its target orbit around the Moon on Friday. We’re now into the latter half of the 25.5-day demo mission, and with it comes a watershed moment for the record books.
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NASA Will Let You Send Messages to an iPad On Board Orion
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission features a host of demonstration technologies, including Callisto — a collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and Cisco. The Callisto team is making it possible for anyone to communicate with the system, in which messages will be shown on an iPad screen “for the world to see.”