NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is headed to the moon on a first-of-its-kind check flight and also you could possibly see a telescope’s view of the spacecraft on-line tonight (Nov. 16).
The Orion spacecraft launched towards the moon in the present day at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida, using the company’s first Space Launch System megarocket into orbit. A couple of hours later, the rocket’s higher stage fired its engine to ship the Artemis 1 Orion capsule on its journey round the moon. That is the place tonight’s stay webcast is available in.
Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Digital Telescope Mission in Ceccano, Italy, will try and stream stay telescope views of Orion on-line in a livestream occasion scheduled for 10:30 p.m. EST (0330 Nov. 17 GMT). You possibly can watch it free within the window above or directly from the Virtual Telescope Project website (opens in new tab).
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“The launch of Artemis 1 is far more than us going to the moon once more. It’s the starting of a brand new period,” Masi wrote in an announcement. “Due to the historic significance of this occasion, we determined to attempt one thing by no means carried out (to our information) earlier than: we’ll share stay photos, on-line, of the Orion spacecraft on its approach to the moon after its launch.”
