Mission Around the Moon Successful, Cargo Orion Spaceship Begins Unloading

FLORIDA – After successful doing mission around the moon the payload of the Orion spacecraft began to be removed by the technicians NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Florida. This work will take a long time because it needs to be done carefully to find out the results of the scientific payload carried by the Orion capsule.

Technicians opened the Orion hatch and began removing payloads that were flown to the moon and back to Earth on the Artemis 1 mission. “This week, technicians will remove nine avionics boxes from Orion,” NASA said in a statement on the Space page, Thursday (12/1/2019). 2023).

Upon completion, the spacecraft will travel to NASA’s Glenn Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio for acoustic vibration testing and other environmental testing. “In the coming months, technicians will remove the payload left on board (Orion),” NASA continued.

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Artemis 1 mission launched on November 16, 2022 from KSC aboard a Space Launch System rocket, sending the unmanned Orion capsule on a cruise around the Moon’s orbit. The mission is the first of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program.

After the mission around the Moon was completed, the Orion capsule returned to Earth and landed off the coast of Baja California on December 11, 2022. The capsule was then taken to KSC by truck and arrived on December 30, 2022.

Since then, workers have inspected Orion and its various systems, assessing performance over the nearly 26-day Artemis 1 mission. The 5-meter-wide capsule’s heat shield, the largest of its kind, received particular attention, given the extreme conditions it was subjected to.

During Orion’s reentry through Earth’s atmosphere on December 11, 2022, the heat shield withstands temperatures of up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 2,800 degrees Celsius. This temperature is about half that of the sun’s surface heat.

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This ongoing inspection will inform preparations for the Artemis 2 mission, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon in 2024. If all goes well with that flight, NASA could begin preparing for Artemis 3, which will land a crew near the lunar south pole in 2025 or 2026 .

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