Editor’s note: This story was updated on November 18th after the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather at the telescope site.
NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is heading to the moon for the first test flight of its kind, and you may be able to see a telescope view of the spacecraft online Saturday night (November 19).
The Orion spacecraft It launched toward the Moon on Wednesday (November 16) at 1:47 a.m. EDT (0647 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, aboard the agency’s first flight. Space launch system megarocket in orbit. A few hours later, the top of the rocket fired its engine to send a salvo Artemis 1 Orion capsule on its voyage around the moon. That’s where tonight’s live webcast comes in.
Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project in Secano, Italy, will attempt to broadcast live telescope views of Orion over the Internet at a scheduled live broadcast event. 10:30 p.m. EST (0330 Nov 20 GMT). You can view it for free in the window above or Straight from the Virtual Telescope Project website (Opens in a new tab).
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“Artemis 1 launch It is much more than going to the moon again. “It’s the beginning of a new era,” Massey wrote in a statement. Given the historical significance of this event, we’ve decided to try something that (as far as we know) hasn’t been done before: We’ll be sharing live photos, online, of the event. Orion spacecraft on its way to the moon after its launch.”
It is not certain that the Hypothetical Telescope Project will be able to detect the Orion spacecraft. First, the weather in Italy should cooperate, and then Massey should be able to spot the spacecraft, a relatively small, fast-moving target in the void of space, with his telescope.
“We will do everything we can to show you the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on its way to the Moon, as soon as we can see it from Italy,” Massey wrote. “We will assume launch and trajectory data provided by JPL Horizons/Solar System Dynamics services, properly imported into our instrumental telescopes to track this very difficult target at our best.”
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