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Dr. MGR-ACS Space Technology Centre

                           SPACE EXPLORER





                                          “An Ingress to Borderless world”




      Volume 01/Issue-10                                                         Bimonthly 1-15, December 2022


         NASA is over the moon with success of



         Artemis 1 Orion test flight





















         Image Credit: NASA

        Artemis 1 wrapped up Sunday afternoon               the baton nicely, meeting all of its required mile-
        (Dec. 11) with the successful splashdown of         stones as well. The capsule arrived in orbit
        an uncrewed Orion capsule in the Pacific            around the moon on Nov. 25 and left on
        Ocean about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off          schedule six days later. On Dec. 5, Orion aced a
        the coast of Baja California. Though a              long engine burn during a close lunar flyby,
        considerable amount of postflight analysis          setting it on course for Earth. The homecoming
        remains, NASA already views  the 25.5-day-          also went according to plan. Orion's 16.5-foot-
        long Artemis 1 as a rousing success. "I don't       wide (5 meters) heat shield — the largest of its
        think any one of us could have imagined a           type ever flown — protected the capsule during
        mission this successful," Artemis 1 mission         its fiery reentry to Earth's atmosphere on
        manager Mike Sarafin said during a post             Sunday. And its drogue and main parachute
        splashdown briefing on Sunday. "We now              systems deployed on time, slowing Orion's
        have a foundational deep-space                      descent and enabling a soft splashdown. Orion
        transportation system. "That system consists        will soon be loaded onto the USS Portland, a
        of Orion and the Space Launch                       U.S. Navy recovery ship, which will haul the
        System (SLS) megarocket, which sent the             capsule to San Diego. From there, the
        capsule on its way to the moon on Nov. 16           spacecraft will be shipped overland to KSC,
        from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC)              where it will get a thorough inspection. NASA
        in Florida.                                         won't issue an official verdict on the test flight
                                                            until that work, and analyses of Orion's
        It was the debut liftoff for the SLS, and the
        huge vehicle performed nearly flawlessly,           voluminous flight data, are concluded. But given
        agency officials have said. Orion picked up         how smoothly everything went on Artemis 1, the
                                                            final assessment is likely to be glowing.



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