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Emblem of the Artemis program. The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States.The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-term objectives include establishing an international expedition team, and a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
Artemis II is a scheduled mission of the NASA-led Artemis program. It will use the second launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and include the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft .
Artemis II is scheduled to launch in April 2026 as a crewed lunar flyby. The European Service Module for the mission was completed and handed over to NASA in 2023. [72] Testing is underway on the Orion module for Artemis II. In April 2024, Lockheed was on track to hand over the Orion module by September after testing was complete.
The mission preceding it, Artemis II, has also been delayed to no earlier than 2026. The astronauts who are part of the Artemis II mission will one day embark on a 10-day trip circumnavigating ...
Orion capsules on missions beyond Artemis II will have an upgraded heat shield. Replacing the Artemis II heat shield would have caused a much longer delay of at least a year, according to Pam ...
Heat shield damage seen during the first Artemis test flight is now understood, NASA says, but more time is needed to implement fixes. NASA delays next 2 Artemis moon missions to address heat ...
Hakuto-R Mission 2: Tenacious ispace Europe: June 2025 TBD: Planned Hakuto-R Mission 2 will feature a rover for surface exploration and data collection. IM-3: Lunar Vertex: NASA/Lunar Outpost Q4 2025 TBD: Planned CADRE x4 NASA: Planned Mission to study Reiner Gamma. Chang’e 7: Chang’e 7 rover CNSA: 2026 TBD: Planned Chang’e 7 hopper Planned
The mission would study the Uranian atmosphere, magnetic and thermal characteristics, gravitational harmonics, as well as do flybys of Uranian moons. [ 22 ] [ 30 ] In addition, a 2017 study suggested that a single SLS Block 1B launch vehicle could launch two spacecraft, one to each ice giant , with launch dates suggested from 2024 to 2037 ...