NASA Artemis I – Flight Day 10: Orion Spacecraft Enters Distant Retrograde Orbit

Image: Illustration of the Orion spacecraft flying around the Moon. Image credit: NASA. Article by NASA. SciTechDaily – November 26, 2022.

At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Flight Controllers in the White Flight Control Room successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit. They fired the orbital maneuvering system engine at 4:52 p.m. CST for 1 minute and 28 seconds, propelling the spacecraft at 363 feet per second. Shortly before conducting the burn, Orion was traveling more than […]

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