Task Artemis IPart of NASA’s ambitious project to get humans to the Moon and then to Mars, it should launch on August 29 – with a window through September 5 – and you can track everything online in real time!
It will be possible to track the mission spacecraft online, via the Artemis Real Time Orbit Website (AROW). Orion will travel 40,000 miles (almost 65,000 kilometers) beyond the Moon for up to 42 days in its first integrated test flight with a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
???? Nice view @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion Yesterday, August on Launch Pad 39B. 20, 2022, as seen from the Atlantic Ocean.
Photograph: NASA/Sean Cannon pic.twitter.com/VA1wSFeKeq— NASA’s Discovery Ground Systems (@NASAGroundSys) 21 August 2022
Using AROW, anyone with internet access will be able to control where Orion will be and track its distance to Earth and Moon, as well as measure mission duration and spacecraft speed.
AROW will be available from August 28. NASA website and also via account @NASA_Orionfrom Twitter.
How will AROW work?
AROW will present data collected by sensors on Orion sent to NASA’s Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston, United States.
The site will provide real-time data when Orion flies solo. On the website, it will be possible to see where the spacecraft will be relative to Earth and the Moon, follow the mission path, and view the main signs and features of the Moon, including information about landing sites from the previous Apollo program.
The site will also make available to download the mission’s flight path data, called ephemeris, and a set of Orion state vectors that describe exactly where the spacecraft is located in space and how it moves.
Vectors can be used by data scientists, artists, and creators to create their own apps for tracking, data visualization, and “everything else they can imagine,” according to NASA.
AROW technology can be applied to other tasks in the future. So, were you curious to follow Orion in real time?
Source: Tec Mundo
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