After numerous delays, on November 16, NASA finally launched the Orion spacecraft on the world’s largest Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. According to plans, during the 25-day mission of Artemis-1, a manned spacecraft will fly to the moon, make several orbits and return back. So far, everything is going smoothly, and the first stages of the flight were broadcast live from the cameras on board the Orion.
NASA noted that the last time viewers could see this was only in 1972 as part of the Apollo mission. Now the recording was broadcast from both outdoor cameras (on the Orion solar panels) and from internal ones (behind the seats of the astronauts) – there are four of them outside, and this turned out to be useful, since one of the cameras that the scientists first chose was illuminated by the sun.
The footage was broadcast at a time when Orion was about 36,000 km from Earth (one-fifth of its way) – at this time the ship was flying at a speed of about 8787 km / h.
Source: Trash Box
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