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Hi everyone -- these images came to me for posting on the Ares I-X blog today. Pretty cool stuff. This is one of two I'm posting. Here's the blog text:
"The first stage segments are just about ready to go. They have a long trip ahead of them from first stage contractor ATK’s facilities in Promontory, Utah to the launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Last week, using specialty transporters, ATK moved the Center Aft Segment to a holding facility where it will be housed in preparation for the cross-country trek via railcar. Some one described these transporters as looking like something out of the Transformers movie and I don’t think that’s too far off. They are impressive looking vehicles.
That big black line you see running diagonally down the side is called a Z-stripe. The Z-stripe is a 24-inch wide stripe painted on the first stage motor segments that wraps from the top of the motor to the bottom. The main purpose of the Z-stripe is to provide a way for the I-X team to determine the roll attitude and rate from footage recorded by cameras on the ground. That footage serves as a backup to on-board data gathered during the flight. The Z-stripe will also provide confirmation that the rocket rolled 90° shortly after lift-off from the pad like it is supposed to. Measurement from watching the Z-stripe could be very helpful in the case that the flight goes differently than expected.
We’re expecting to ship the motor segments next month. They are the last few pieces of hardware to ship, so once they make it down to KSC, we’ll be ready to start putting the rocket together."
Image credits: NASA/ATK
Learn more about the Ares rockets:
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Created for Photoshop Contest Group Week 593 - Troll Sept 2016.
Thank you Don for the face image.
Thank you Sweetie Pie from Flickr for the 2 space photos.
Texture by Topaz.
The development of NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle, the Ares I rocket, took another step forward on Jan, 29 as Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, successfully tested a critical piece. ATK conducted a full-scale separation test of the forward skirt extension for the Ares I-X flight test at its facility in Promontory, Utah.
The Ares I-X test launch is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during 2009. The rocket will climb about 25 miles in altitude during a two-minute powered flight. The launch will culminate with a test of the separation of the first stage from the rocket and deployment of the accompanying parachute system that will return the first stage to Earth for data and hardware recovery.
The test simulated the separation event that will take place following the first stage flight of Ares I-X. During the Ares I-X flight, the booster will separate at the frustum, a cone-shaped piece that attaches the first stage to the larger diameter upper stage.
Image credit: ATK/NASA
Read entire feature:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flighttests...
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Hi everyone -- these images came to me for posting on the Ares I-X blog today. Pretty cool stuff. This is two of two I'm posting. Here's the blog text:
"The first stage segments are just about ready to go. They have a long trip ahead of them from first stage contractor ATK’s facilities in Promontory, Utah to the launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Last week, using specialty transporters, ATK moved the Center Aft Segment to a holding facility where it will be housed in preparation for the cross-country trek via railcar. Some one described these transporters as looking like something out of the Transformers movie and I don’t think that’s too far off. They are impressive looking vehicles.
That big black line you see running diagonally down the side is called a Z-stripe. The Z-stripe is a 24-inch wide stripe painted on the first stage motor segments that wraps from the top of the motor to the bottom. The main purpose of the Z-stripe is to provide a way for the I-X team to determine the roll attitude and rate from footage recorded by cameras on the ground. That footage serves as a backup to on-board data gathered during the flight. The Z-stripe will also provide confirmation that the rocket rolled 90° shortly after lift-off from the pad like it is supposed to. Measurement from watching the Z-stripe could be very helpful in the case that the flight goes differently than expected.
We’re expecting to ship the motor segments next month. They are the last few pieces of hardware to ship, so once they make it down to KSC, we’ll be ready to start putting the rocket together."
Image credits: NASA/ATK
Learn more about the Ares rockets:
p.s. You can see all of the Ares photos in the Ares Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/ares/ We'd love to have you as a member!
NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. From the back of a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft, researchers dropped a 72,000-pound payload -- tying the record for the heaviest load ever extracted from the aircraft during flight -- from an altitude of 25,000 feet. The parachute and all test hardware functioned properly and landed safely.
Image credit: U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds
Original images: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/multimedia/ares/...
Read more about NASA's Ares Rockets:
p.s. You can see all of the Ares photos in the Ares Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/ares/
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"Crewman wheels fuel tank from cave, as moon-to-earth missile is readied for firing."
The use of the station on the moon as a military base for defense purposes, thankfully, didn't happen. Here is what the authors had proposed:
"The station on the moon would be pretty safe against any kind of attack from earth. . . and guided missiles fired from the moon against a target on earth would be almost impossible to stop. So the first trip to the moon will be made to explore for a place where a military base can be set up." [From the text]
Wouldn't expect anything less from the paranoid fifties.
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To The 🌙Moon & 🌎Back Event
Aug. 12th - Aug 31st!
👦Boys will be boys👦!
Give them some toys, a sleeping bag and they're happy!
Our son, Molimo, is here showing off some of the awesome finds at the event!
And who doesn't love a gacha!
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The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
View of ESA's European Service Module that is powering NASA's Orion spacecraft, pointing at our planet and the Moon, taken on the 13th day of flight for the Artemis I mission at 22:06 CET (21:06 GMT), 28 November 2022. It shows Orion and the European Service Module halfway through the Artemis I mission near its maximum distance from Earth, at 432210 km from our home planet and over 64 000 km from the Moon. Seen from the spacecraft our planet had just passed behind the Moon when this photo was taken, as Orion was in lunar orbit.
This picture was presented to French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to NASA’s headquarters in Washington D.C., USA, on 30 November.
Cameras placed at the end of Orion’s four European-built solar array wings are recording the Artemis mission as engineers test the uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s capabilities, preparing for missions with astronauts to the Moon.
After its launch on November 16, Orion has circled the Moon on its 25-day Artemis I mission. Orion was launched by the NASA Space Launch System rocket at 7:47 CET (06:47 GMT) from launchpad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.ac
The European Service Module is powering Orion, providing propulsion, temperature control, electricity as well as storage and delivery for essential supplies such as fuel, water and air. The uncrewed mission to learn as much as possible about Orion and its European Service Module’s performance. The primary objectives are to demonstrate Orion’s heat shield on reentry, demonstrate operations and facilities during all mission phases, and retrieve the spacecraft after splashdown.
Credits: NASA
NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I test flight saw Orion travel around the Moon and farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans and return them to Earth. The landing for the Artemis I mission starts with a collision course with Earth to test the reentry, hitting our atmosphere at speeds of 40 times the speed of sound.
Just 40 minutes before splashdown, having delivered Orion safely back to Earth, ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) with its Crew Module Adapter will detach from the crew capsule. As planned, the ESM will up harmlessly in the atmosphere as the Orion Crew Module guides itself through reentry, orienting the capsule with its own thrusters, releasing its parachutes and gracefully splashing down. Recovery teams will collect the capsule.
Artemis is the international lunar exploration programme that is taking humankind to the Moon. This first mission provided a first test of both NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion moonship that was propelled by the ESM’s 33 engines beyond the Moon and into deep space. Future European Service Modules will provide electricity, propulsion and cabin thermal control for astronauts on lunar missions as well as breathable atmosphere and drinking water.
Credits: ESA-K. Lochtenberg
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To The 🌙Moon & 🌎Back Event
Aug. 12th - Aug 31st!
For those days when you have so much work to do and not enough time to do it in!
The toddler's life is a rough life!
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The Orion spacecraft with European Service Module (left), Earth (middle) and the Moon (right) are captured in this ‘family portrait’ by Orion’s solar array camera during the spacecraft’s closet approach to the lunar surface.
Six days into the 25-day Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft performed a key manoeuvre: just a little more than 130 km from the lunar surface, the main engine on the European Service Module – a repurposed Space Shuttle engine that is now on its 20th spaceflight – fired for just under 150 seconds to push the spacecraft and head towards a lunar orbit using the Moon’s gravity to reduce fuel consumption.
The manoeuvre, known as the Outbound Powered Flyby, was another success for the Artemis I mission, whose goal is to test the mission profile, the spacecraft, and the people operating it in preparation for flights with astronauts on future missions.
The European Service Module is powering Orion around the Moon and back, providing propulsion, temperature control, electricity as well as storage and delivery for essential supplies such as fuel, water and air.
Mission control for Orion is at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, where European engineers are on hand at all times to offer in-depth expertise on the finer details of the service module. The mission evaluation room based at ESA’s technical heart in The Netherlands also has personnel round the clock in direct communication with their US and European colleagues in mission control in Houston.
“Operationally the spacecraft is performing perfectly and the international collaboration with this new spacecraft with new flight rules is great to see,” says ESA’s Programme Manager for the European Service Modules, Philippe Deloo, “The teams across both sides of the Atlantic are showing exemplary skills, knowledge and teamwork leading humankind forward to the Moon.”
Stunning new imagery of Earth from a human-rated spacecraft such as this image is also important to the mission, bringing the wonder of space exploration to the public some 50 years after the last Apollo mission.
This photo was taken by a Go-Pro fastened to the end of one of four 7 m-long solar array, and connects to the spacecraft over a wireless network. The solar arrays provide enough electricity to power two households on Earth.
Find the latest updates on Artemis I on the ESA Orion blog and on Twitter @esaspaceflight.
Credits: NASA
The waxing gibbous moon rises above “Roka” or “Adrachti” —the distinctively spindle-shaped, vertical rock— at Meteora, Greece, as viewed from Kastraki village. Meteora rock formations are geologically unique, lofty, and included in UNESCO World Heritage list.
The daylight and the moon’s low altitude (5.3° above the horizon) both impede capturing lunar surface details in great extent.
❝Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
WANDERING COMPANIONLESS
Among the stars…❞
—PB Shelley (“To The Moon”)
The Orion spacecraft with integrated European Service Module sit atop the Space Launch System, imaged at sunrise at historic Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 27 August.
The Flight Readiness Review has deemed the trio GO for launch, marking the dawn of a new era in space exploration.
The first in a series of missions that will return humans to the Moon, including taking the first European, Artemis I is scheduled for launch no earlier than Monday 29 August, at 14:33 CEST.
This mission will put NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module to the test during a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
The crew module, however, won’t be empty. Two mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, will occupy the passenger seats. Their female-shaped plastic bodies are filled with over 5600 sensors each to measure the radiation load during their trip around the Moon. The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has also been assigned a seat.
The spacecraft will enter lunar orbit using the Moon’s gravity to gain speed and propel itself almost half a million km from Earth – farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever travelled.
The second Artemis mission will see four astronauts travel around the Moon on a flyby voyage around our natural satellite.
Mission duration depends on the launch date and even time. It will last between 20 to 40 days, depending on how many orbits of the Moon mission designers decide to make.
This flexibility in mission length is necessary to allow the mission to end as intended with a splashdown during daylight hours in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, USA.
Two more dates are available if a launch on 29 August is not possible. The Artemis Moon mission can also be launched on 2 September and 5 September. Check all the possible launch options on ESA’s Orion blog.
Orion is the only spacecraft capable of human spaceflight outside Earth orbit and high-speed reentry from the vicinity of the Moon. More than just a crew module, Orion includes the European Service Module (ESM), the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Watch launch coverage on ESA Web TV starting at 12:30 CEST here. Follow @esaspaceflight for updates and live Twitter coverage.
Credits: ESA-A. Conigli
NASA started rolling the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on 26 September at 05:21 CEST (04:21 BST).
The return to hangar was based on weather predictions associated with Hurricane Ian, that were not improving around the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center area in Florida, USA. The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system.
NASA’s Artemis I flight test will be the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems.
ESA’s European Service Module will be powering the Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back.
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
NASA started rolling the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on 26 September at 05:21 CEST (04:21 BST).
The return to hangar was based on weather predictions associated with Hurricane Ian, that were not improving around the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center area in Florida, USA. The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system.
NASA’s Artemis I flight test will be the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems.
ESA’s European Service Module will be powering the Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back.
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
NASA started rolling the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on 26 September at 05:21 CEST (04:21 BST).
The return to hangar was based on weather predictions associated with Hurricane Ian, that were not improving around the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center area in Florida, USA. The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system.
NASA’s Artemis I flight test will be the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems.
ESA’s European Service Module will be powering the Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back.
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Orion spacecraft with integrated European Service Module sit atop the Space Launch System, imaged at sunrise at historic Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 27 August.
The Flight Readiness Review has deemed the trio GO for launch, marking the dawn of a new era in space exploration.
The first in a series of missions that will return humans to the Moon, including taking the first European, Artemis I is scheduled for launch no earlier than Monday 29 August, at 14:33 CEST.
This mission will put NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module to the test during a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
The crew module, however, won’t be empty. Two mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, will occupy the passenger seats. Their female-shaped plastic bodies are filled with over 5600 sensors each to measure the radiation load during their trip around the Moon. The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has also been assigned a seat.
The spacecraft will enter lunar orbit using the Moon’s gravity to gain speed and propel itself almost half a million km from Earth – farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever travelled.
The second Artemis mission will see four astronauts travel around the Moon on a flyby voyage around our natural satellite.
Mission duration depends on the launch date and even time. It will last between 20 to 40 days, depending on how many orbits of the Moon mission designers decide to make.
This flexibility in mission length is necessary to allow the mission to end as intended with a splashdown during daylight hours in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, USA.
Two more dates are available if a launch on 29 August is not possible. The Artemis Moon mission can also be launched on 2 September and 5 September. Check all the possible launch options on ESA’s Orion blog.
Orion is the only spacecraft capable of human spaceflight outside Earth orbit and high-speed reentry from the vicinity of the Moon. More than just a crew module, Orion includes the European Service Module (ESM), the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Watch launch coverage on ESA Web TV starting at 12:30 CEST here. Follow @esaspaceflight for updates and live Twitter coverage.
Credits: ESA-A. Conigli
The Orion spacecraft with integrated European Service Module sit atop the Space Launch System, imaged at sunrise at historic Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 27 August.
The Flight Readiness Review has deemed the trio GO for launch, marking the dawn of a new era in space exploration.
The first in a series of missions that will return humans to the Moon, including taking the first European, Artemis I is scheduled for launch no earlier than Monday 29 August, at 14:33 CEST.
This mission will put NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module to the test during a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
The crew module, however, won’t be empty. Two mannequins, named Helga and Zohar, will occupy the passenger seats. Their female-shaped plastic bodies are filled with over 5600 sensors each to measure the radiation load during their trip around the Moon. The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has also been assigned a seat.
The spacecraft will enter lunar orbit using the Moon’s gravity to gain speed and propel itself almost half a million km from Earth – farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever travelled.
The second Artemis mission will see four astronauts travel around the Moon on a flyby voyage around our natural satellite.
Mission duration depends on the launch date and even time. It will last between 20 to 40 days, depending on how many orbits of the Moon mission designers decide to make.
This flexibility in mission length is necessary to allow the mission to end as intended with a splashdown during daylight hours in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, USA.
Two more dates are available if a launch on 29 August is not possible. The Artemis Moon mission can also be launched on 2 September and 5 September. Check all the possible launch options on ESA’s Orion blog.
Orion is the only spacecraft capable of human spaceflight outside Earth orbit and high-speed reentry from the vicinity of the Moon. More than just a crew module, Orion includes the European Service Module (ESM), the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Watch launch coverage on ESA Web TV starting at 12:30 CEST here. Follow @esaspaceflight for updates and live Twitter coverage.
Credits: ESA-A. Conigli
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
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I'm not sure if this was as the sun set or rose.
Source Image: tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Gemini/7/Hasselblad%20500C%...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module, at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 12 November, 2022. The Artemis I mission will be the first test of SLS, Orion and the European Service Module.
The Orion spacecraft with European Service Module will fly farther from Earth than any human-rated vehicle has ever flown before.
The spacecraft will perform a flyby of the Moon, using lunar gravity to gain speed and propel itself 70 000 km beyond the Moon, almost half a million km from Earth – further than any human has ever travelled, where it will inject itself in a Distant Retrograde Orbit around the Moon.
On its return journey, Orion will do another flyby of the Moon before heading back to Earth.
The total trip will take around 20 days, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean without the European Service Module – it separates and burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
NASA started rolling the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on 26 September at 05:21 CEST (04:21 BST).
The return to hangar was based on weather predictions associated with Hurricane Ian, that were not improving around the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center area in Florida, USA. The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system.
NASA’s Artemis I flight test will be the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems.
ESA’s European Service Module will be powering the Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back.
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
‘Twas the day before launch and all across the globe, people await liftoff for Artemis I with hope.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module, is seen here on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 12 November.
After much anticipation, NASA launch authorities have given the GO for the first opportunity for launch: tomorrow, 16 November with a two-hour launch window starting at 07:04 CET (06:04 GMT, 1:04 local time).
Artemis I is the first mission in a large programme to send astronauts around and on the Moon sustainably. This uncrewed first launch will see the Orion spacecraft travel to the Moon, enter an elongated orbit around our satellite and then return to Earth, powered by the European-built service module that supplies electricity, propulsion, fuel, water and air as well as keeping the spacecraft operating at the right temperature.
The European Service Modules are made from components supplied by over 20 companies in ten ESA Member States and USA. As the first European Service Module sits atop the SLS rocket on the launchpad, the second is only 8 km away being integrated with the Orion crew capsule for the first crewed mission – Artemis II. The third and fourth European Service Modules – that will power astronauts to a Moon landing – are in production in Bremen, Germany.
With a 16 November launch, the three-week Artemis I mission would end on 11 December with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The European Service Module detaches from the Orion Crew Module before splashdown and burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere, its job complete after taking Orion to the Moon and back safely.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
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Pose @ To the moon & Back October Round 2019
To The 🌙Moon & 🌎Back Event
Sept. 12th - Sept 30th!
😢This one brings tears to my eyes...😢
What I see is a little man seeing his Daddy off as he goes to serve his country,🌎
he's being so strong and brave and wanting to be just like Daddy.
Hope you enjoy! 👍💓😍💋👀❤
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To The 🌙Moon & 🌎Back Event
Sept. 12th - Sept 30th!
Last Chance!
♥{Sweet Hearts}♥ did it again!
This crazy cute boy's outfit isn't all they have!
Matching space girls outfits too!
Head on over!
This pose is one of mine and is part a set at To the Moon & Back!
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To The 🌙Moon & 🌎Back Event
Sept. 12th - Sept 30th!
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Available exclusively at the event for the month!
This pose is one of mine and is part of an exclusive 5 pose set called Oh My Sass.
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Rocket Ship to the moon
As a very young boy (1950's) I remember seeing this rocket ship at Disney Land. It started my love for reading science fiction, the space program, and learning to fly. I don't think people really gave it much thought at the time, but it certainly left it's mark on me.
I wonder...whatever happen to that space ship??
Photo taken by grandparents with a simple 35mm camera probably in the early 1950's.
In the wee hours of November 16, 2022, the spacecraft Artemis was launched into space- an unmanned craft headed to the moon! The launch was picture perfect and all reports coming in are great! Ken worked on this project for the last 10 years of his career, and even though he retired 2 years ago, many of his team texted with all the excitement of this achievement and congratulated and thanked him for his part in the program!
This shot is not intended to appear as real. This is a photo of a small keepsake I have on my desk- it represents the mission of humanity to return to space, to glean knowledge for all people, and to share that knowledge.
My Dad’s entire career was as a NASA engineer- I grew up as a space baby. I wish that my Dad had lived to see the return of men to the moon! He would have been so excited, since he helped put them there the first time! I am SO proud of all who contributed to make this mission a reality- it has been too long- but now- Onward! GO Artemis, GO!
Need an x-ray? Use a cordless tool? Use a GPS? Need dialysis or an insulin pump? These are a few spinoffs from the space program!
Happy international Moon day! Today marks the annual celebration of the Apollo 11 lunar landing on 20 July, in 1969. More than fifty years later, during the Artemis I mission on 28 November 2022, this image was captured by a camera placed on the tip of one of the European Service Module’s four solar array wings, part of the Orion spacecraft.
The frame shows the Orion spacecraft on the left with one solar wing extending from the European Service Module to the right, dividing Earth (above) and the Moon. The cones on the European Service Module are the thrusters for the engines the spacecraft has for propulsion. The smaller cones on the side, in groups of four are part of the reaction control system used to orient the spacecraft, and the larger ones facing the camera grouped by two are the auxiliary thrusters.
Artemis I is the first in a series of missions to propel humankind forward to the Moon and beyond. The Artemis programme aims to establish permanent stations and outposts in orbit around our natural satellite. During the Artemis I test flight, the Orion spacecraft flew without astronauts. NASA provided the rocket and the crew capsule and ESA the European Service Module – Orion's 'powerhouse’.
The test flight allowed mission control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to get a feel for the spacecraft and push it to the limits of its capabilities. To everyone's delight Orion exceeded all expectations. For the European experts who worked on the European Service Module, the mission was even more rewarding due to the live view of the commands provided by the cameras on board.
The primary purpose of the cameras was self-observation: to monitor the spacecraft on its two-week mission around the Moon. “As engineers we are lucky to have the livestream and high-quality photos, as they are rare, most satellites don’t take selfies,” says Thales Alenia Space’s Lorenzo Andrioli, “To see those images of Orion flying by the Moon and to think you have touched those components is a very special feeling.”
Orion was equipped with 16 strategically placed cameras across its structure, with one at the end of each of the four solar array wings. The wing cameras were especially versatile. The solar arrays were designed to swivel, pivot and rotate to capture as much sunlight as possible. During the test flight, they could also be repositioned to capture better views of the Moon. On occasion, the entire spacecraft was rotated to get extraordinary shots.
The European Service Module played a crucial role in enabling these photos. It consumed less fuel while also generating more electricity than required for the mission. The surplus of energy allowed for the repositioning of the spacecraft and solar wings.
Each operation in space requires close coordination between the spacecraft systems: electrical power, propulsion, thermal and data handling. Changing one parameter has immediate effects on the others, for example moving the solar panels would change the amount of electricity generated, and adjusting the spacecraft may necessitate the thermal team's preparation of heaters to maintain optimal operating temperatures.
With this resounding success, all is set for Artemis II which will see four astronauts orbit the Moon and return to Earth. NASA’s commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, together with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will embark on this exciting mission in 2024.
Credits: NASA
Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns,
I remember how, heavy with sorrow,
I climbed this hill to gaze on you,
And then as now you hung above those trees
Illuminating all. But to my eyes
Your face seemed clouded, temulous
From the tears that rose beneath my lids,
So painful was my life: and is, my
Dearest moon; its tenor does not change.
And yet, memory and numbering the epochs
Of my grief is pleasing to me. How welcome
In that youthful time -when hope's span is long,
And memory short -is the remembrance even of
Past sad things whose pain endures.
Giacomo Leopardi To the Moon
PS I know I haven't been flickering much later bu I promise to catch up with you guys this weekend! I miss your work! :(
NASA started rolling the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on 26 September at 05:21 CEST (04:21 BST).
The return to hangar was based on weather predictions associated with Hurricane Ian, that were not improving around the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center area in Florida, USA. The decision allows time for employees to address the needs of their families and protect the integrated rocket and spacecraft system.
NASA’s Artemis I flight test will be the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, SLS rocket, and supporting ground systems.
ESA’s European Service Module will be powering the Orion spacecraft to the Moon and back.
The European Service Module – or ESM – provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja