Follow Orion's trip to the moon with NASA Artemis 1 tracking website - Space.com

Ride on with NASA's latest satellite ngo connected a tracking website conscionable launched by the agency.

Artemis 1, the archetypal formation of the Artemis program, launched early successful Wednesday morning (Nov. 16). A Space Launch System rocket, connected its first-ever mission, successfully sent an uncrewed Orion spacecraft toward the moon.

Though the motorboat is over, you tin support pursuing on with the astir month-long ngo successful existent clip on this NASA website (opens successful caller tab). And, if you want, you tin download the trajectory information to make your ain applications, the bureau has said.

The basal website shows an animation of Orion successful abstraction on with the ngo elapsed time, the capsule's velocity, and its region from Earth and from the moon. You tin alteration the presumption of the Orion spacecraft by pivoting the camera oregon moving betwixt 4 star array helping cameras, oregon power betwixt views of the mission's way truthful far. You tin besides regard astatine the spacecraft up close.

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"The ephemeris information tin beryllium utilized to way Orion with your ain spaceflight bundle exertion oregon telescope. It tin besides beryllium utilized to make a physics model, animation, visualization, tracking exertion oregon different conceivable projects," NASA writer Erika Peters said successful a blog post (opens successful caller tab) connected Tumblr.

Available authorities vectors, oregon information describing the determination and movements of Orion successful space, could besides beryllium utilized for tracking apps and information visualizations, NASA said successful a separate post (opens successful caller tab) astir the project.

The information disposable online is the aforesaid arsenic what is generated by a radical wrong NASA's ngo power astatine Johnson Space Center successful Houston. The group, called formation dynamics operations (FDO), is liable for "keeping way of wherever the spacecraft is, and wherever it is going to be," Peters said.

FDO is gaining accusation from pursuing Orion connected the Deep Space Network, which is simply a trio of immense outer dishes connected Earth that let connection with NASA's missions crossed the star system. Between the tracking accusation received and the models FDO generates, the squad aims to supply accuracy connected Orion's way to provender to Artemis formation controllers.

"An close trajectory is indispensable for achieving ngo objectives, maintaining communications links, lighting, adjusting the trajectory, and more," Peters added. 

Elizabeth Howell is the co-author of "Why Am I Taller (opens successful caller tab)?" (ECW Press, 2022; with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a publication astir abstraction medicine. Follow her connected Twitter @howellspace (opens successful caller tab). Follow america connected Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens successful caller tab) or Facebook (opens successful caller tab).