See footage of the Orion Spacecraft a little over an hour before its "outbound powered flyby burn". The spacecraft was less than 4,500 miles away (7,242 km) and was traveling at 757 miles per hour (1218 kph).
Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: Binaural Alpha by Syntropy / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: Binaural Alpha by Syntropy / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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00:00Now less than 4,500 miles away from the moon,
00:05continuing to grow closer ahead of the outbound powered flyby burn.
00:08Again, we're looking for that burn in an hour and 25 minutes from now, 744 a.m. Eastern time.
00:14Orion is traveling at 757 miles per hour.
00:17This is a live view from the spacecraft itself.
00:20It is from a camera mounted on one of the solar array wings.
00:26We will lose communication with the spacecraft as it passes behind the moon.
00:35That loss of communication will occur for approximately 34 minutes,
00:39and again, we're tracking that here.
00:42That loss of communication will start at 726 a.m.
00:56NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology