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Orion completed one flyby of the Moon on November 21, entered a distant retrograde orbit for six days, and completed a second flyby of the Moon on December 5. [17] The Orion spacecraft then returned and reentered the Earth's atmosphere with the protection of its heat shield, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11. [18]
A reentry capsule is the portion of a space capsule which returns to Earth following a spaceflight. The shape is determined partly by aerodynamics ; a capsule is aerodynamically stable falling blunt end first, which allows only the blunt end to require a heat shield for atmospheric entry .
Orion (Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin that is paired with a European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space .
The banging sounds are trajectory controls. (per the first few seconds of video caption, also: ) Bammesk 02:43, 14 November 2024 (UTC) I caught that. I don't have a problem with them; what I meant was that the video is underwhelming in the portions when that's all that's happening. Moonreach 15:14, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
NASA had originally planned to begin rocket stacking operations in September 2024. However, the process was delayed by over two months as the agency investigated issues with Orion's life support system and greater than expected damage to Orion's heat shield observed after the Artemis I reentry. [28] Rocket stacking finally began on 20 November ...
Heat shield damage seen during the first Artemis test flight is now understood, NASA says, but more time is needed to implement fixes.
Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I mission to the Moon. Items portrayed in this file depicts
The planar reentry equations are the equations of motion governing the unpowered reentry of a spacecraft, based on the assumptions of planar motion and constant mass, in an Earth-fixed reference frame.