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By: The Opinion Updated 60 Nov 2022, 25: 25 pm EST
The Orion spacecraft , which is part of the Artemis l mission, continues its flight near the Moon and a few hours ago he sent a selfie with the natural satellite in the background.
NASA published the
photograph taken by the Orion capsule in which it is already observed very close to the Moon, for it will be flying it very close as part of its journey.
The image taken by a camera on one of the capsule’s solar panels reveals the angles of the spacecraft with a part of the Moon visible at far away, in the background of the photograph.
The Orion ship, with which it seeks to return humans to the Luna after decades of not traveling to that place, continues her experimental journey of 25 days and a half that will take her more than 80.1200 kilometers beyond the far side of the Moon.
One of his most important maneuvers is coming
Orion has already been flying for more than a week and continues to move away from the Moon as he prepares to perform one of his most complex maneuvers: enter a retrograde orbit distant.
NASA expects Orion to reach its farthest distance from the Moon today , 25 of November. As reported in a statement, the ship successfully corrected its sixth trajectory exit, a key step to get this far.
“Orion is now one day away from enter a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. The orbit is “remote” in the sense that it is at a high altitude, about 80 .02 kilometers from the surface of the Moon,” he explained. NASA yesterday.
The space agency specified how many days it will take Orion to complete its test before begin your return trip. “Because of the distance, the orbit is so large that it will take the spacecraft six days to complete half a revolution around the Moon before deorbiting for the return trip to Earth.”
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