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Artemis 3: Mid-2027 [6] TBA: SLS Block 1 Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d Carrying Artemis III mission hardware. First lunar landing of the Artemis program. [7] Artemis 4: September 2028 [8] [9] TBA: SLS Block 1B Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d Second Artemis Lunar landing. Debut of the SLS Block 1B and the Exploration Upper ...
Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972. [6] As of December 2024, NASA officially expects Artemis III to launch no earlier than mid-2027 due to heat shield issues on Orion and valve problems in the spacecraft's life support system. [7] [8]
Artemis I was completed at 09:40 PST (17:40 UTC) on 11 December, when the Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, after a record-breaking mission, which saw Artemis travel more than 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) on a path around the Moon before returning safely to Earth.
The U.S. space agency announced Thursday that it is delaying its Artemis II and Artemis III missions by at least one more year, mostly due to issues with the Orion capsule the astronauts would ...
Artemis 1 took off at 6.47am (1.47am local time), with Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket, its most powerful ever, propelling the Orion spacecraft upwards from the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre ...
Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), [9] was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that was launched in November 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA 's Artemis program , Artemis I marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program five decades earlier.
The ICPS used on the Artemis I mission was powered by a single RL10B-2 engine, while the ICPS for Artemis II and Artemis III will use the RL10C-2 variant. [44] [45] [46] Block 1 is intended to be capable of lifting 209,000 lb (95 t) to low Earth orbit (LEO) in this configuration, including the weight of the ICPS as part of the payload. [47]
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