Artemis launch

[BravoXray]

Artemis has left Earth orbit and is headed to the moon. It'll take 4 days to get to the moon instead of the three days Apollo took. The reason is that the Moon is more distant from the Earth at this point in it's orbit, and Artemis will pass farther from the Moon than Apollo did.

 

[ArlyA]

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Can’t wait to see them come home

 

[MossRoad]

I watched a story regarding the heat shield. On the unmanned one they had some degradation and video of pieces coming off. So they kept the same heat shield on the manned mission, but changed the trajectory to lessen the effects, hopefully.

There's something about that (I think) 6 minute communication blackout during re-entry that is the most tense moments.

 

[ArlyA]

Can’t wait to see them come home

With no mechanical failures I'd say....

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

In aviation, there are always issues…

 

[steve tym]

Artemis I skipped of the atmospher to slow down, bounced back into space to cool down, then re-entered. NASA thinks it was the heat up, then cool down that gave the shields trouble. Artemis II was supposed to come in the same way, but they changed to a single re-entry a couple days ago.

 

[caver]

Live feed.

 

[caver]

Or this one that starts in less than 2 hours.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I just watched the splashdown. Everything seems to have gone perfectly.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Go USA!

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

We are incredible

 

[Jstpssng]

It may seem frivolous to some, but I'd rather we spend money on this than some of the other things we do.

 

[BravoXray]

There's something about that (I think) 6 minute communication blackout during re-entry that is the most tense moments.

The plasma envelope surrounding the spacecraft during reentry blocks radio signals from or to the spacecraft. Once it slows and the plasma dissipates, communication can resume.

 

[riptides]

The plasma envelope surrounding the spacecraft during reentry blocks radio signals from or to the spacecraft. Once it slows and the plasma dissipates, communication can resume.

Did you all pickup on the communications issues with the SARSAT teams?

Amazing we can get comms from interstellar satellites, and tracking satellites, and around the moon and back (in spots). But looking at something right in front of you, no com. Sometimes the simple, really is not so simple.

Continued success! Let's get back to exploring and beyond.

 

[steve tym]

I was surprised at the video, or lack there of, of the re-entry.

 

[riptides]

I was surprised at the video, or lack there of, of the re-entry.

I told the wife they need to take out a page from Starlink.

They put cameras on everything and anything.

 

[steve tym]

We can look at Neptune clearly, but we can't get a good picture of this "meteor" coming in?

 

[caver]

Somewhere (X maybe?) someone made the comment like clear pictures of the moon but the landing/recovery looked like it was shot on an 80's VCR camcorder.

 

[steve tym]

Maybe the whole thing was made up???