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NASA’s Orion spacecraft completes closest flyby of the Moon

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — The Orion spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) completed its closest flyby of the Moon this morning.

Prior to the flyby, the mission team performed a powered flyby firing at 07:44 ET, increasing the spacecraft’s speed to a rate of more than 580 miles per hour (928 kilometers per hour), according to NASA.

At the time of the flyby, Orion was 81 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface, traveling at 5,102 miles per hour (8,163 kilometers per hour). It was more than 230,000 miles (368,000 kilometers) from Earth during the flyby.

The powered-out flyby burn is the first of two maneuvers required to enter the far retrograde orbit around the Moon, according to NASA.

Carrying an unmanned Orion spacecraft, NASA’s Space Launch System lifted off for its first test flight debut last Wednesday from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on December 11 and touch down off the coast of San Diego, California.

The Artemis I test flight will pave the way for human flight testing and future human lunar exploration as part of NASA’s Artemis lunar program.

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Moving the International Space Station from its position to avoid ‘wrecks’

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

October 27, 2022 08:21

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that the International Space Station moved from its position, Monday, to avoid the debris of an approaching Russian satellite.

And “NASA” said that the propulsion engines associated with the station worked for more than 5 minutes, Monday, to move the station in a “maneuver” to avoid the debris of the Russian moon “Kosmos 1408”.

She explained that “there was no impact on the operations of the International Space Station.”

Without the maneuver, the wreckage would have been expected to come within regarding 5 km of the station, which is regarding 400 km above the Earth’s surface.

The Russian satellite “Kosmos 1408” was destroyed in November 2021 following it stopped working, resulting in a cloud of debris consisting of hundreds of pieces.

The International Space Station was launched in 1998 and has been continuously inhabited since November 2000 under a partnership led by the United States and Russia, which also includes Canada, Japan and 11 European countries.

Source: agencies