Orion Spacecraft Continues Toward The Moon, Callisto Activated

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft is on the second day of its journey heading toward the Moon as part of a planned 25.5-day flight test.

Artist’s view of Artemis 1 – Orion/ESM separation from Upper Stage. Image credit: ESA– D. Ducros

Orion performed a second outbound trajectory burn at 6:32 a.m. EST using the auxiliary thrusters on the European Service Module, which will be used for most trajectory correction burns.

Teams also collected additional images with the optical navigation camera and activated the Callisto payload, a technology demonstration from Lockheed Martin in collaboration with Amazon and Cisco. writes NASA .

Callisto is located in the Orion cabin and will test voice activated and video technology that could assist future astronauts on deep space missions.

Yesterday, flight controllers moved each solar array to a different position as the Integrated Communications Officer, or INCO, tested the WiFi transfer rate between the camera on the tip of the solar array panels and the camera controller.

The goal was to determine the best position to most efficiently transfer imagery files.

Live coverage – available on the agency’s website, NASA Television, and the NASA app.

NEXT LIVE EVENTS

Monday, Nov. 21
7:15 a.m. – Artemis I coverage of the outbound powered flyby of the Moon by the Orion spacecraft
12:25 p.m. – ISS Expedition 68 in-flight educational event with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Frank Rubio

Written by Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com Staff