NASA loses contact with Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft for 47 minutes

space.com ^ | Mike Wall

[BenLurkin]

NASA unexpectedly lost contact with its moonbound Orion capsule early Wednesday morning (Nov. 23), for reasons that remain unclear.

Mission controllers lost communication with Orion at 1:09 a.m. EST (0609 GMT) while reconfiguring a link between the capsule and the Deep Space Network, the set of radio dishes that NASA uses to talk to its farflung spacecraft.

Orion is gearing up for a crucial maneuver: It's scheduled to perform an engine burn on Friday (Nov. 25) that will insert the capsule into orbit around the moon. If all goes well, Orion will stay in that orbit for about a week, then head back toward Earth on Dec. 1.

[EEGator]

Insert aliens guy…

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, that happened with Jodie foster too when she was with NASA.

[Arm_Bears]

Geezy—Is the Orion carrying ballots?

[cranked]

[MeganC]

Houston, we have a [click!]

[bobcat62]

Gidney & Cloyd don’t want any visitors.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Python, the duct tape that holds the internet together.

[PIF]

Is the Orion carrying ballots?

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No, its going to pick up several tons of ballots.

[pfflier]

Mission controllers lost communication with Orion at 1:09 a.m. EST (0609 GMT) while reconfiguring a link between the capsule and the Deep Space Network, the set of radio dishes that NASA uses to talk to its farflung spacecraft.

Well, that is not so "unexplained". Data links using RF communications require some picky things like a common frequency and the data requires a common exchange format so....somebody got that wrong.

[Brilliant]

Aliens…. Chinese aliens.

[Ezekiel]

The capsule will arrive here with a parachute-aided splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast on Dec. 11.

What timing with the Navy's Apollo/space uniform theme.

Go Navy, beat Artemis.

[ConservativeInPA]

[gathersnomoss]

Gee, that was not an issue in the late 60’s.

[EEGator]

I knew it!…

[George from New England]

Posted on another thread ...

We are at the new moon timing. Communications from earth to moon are fine. But earth receiving signals from the Moon is overwhelmed by solar noise. New Moon MEANS moon, as viewed from earth, is aligned within a few degrees with the sun.

And nasa doesn’t know this ??? So woke it’s pathetic.

[George from New England]

In the 60s and 70s, nasa missions put an earth craft near the moon at the first or last quarters. Not at the full moon or new moon.

[moviefan8]

NASA in the 60s and 70s employed smarter people.

[A Navy Vet]

Why is the US spending billions on NASA to orbit a satellite around the Moon? What's the point when we already had live Astronauts radioing from the Moon decades ago?

Elon Musk is so far ahead of NASA. I'm still wondering why none of the geniouses at NASA thought of turning a booster rock around and landing back to be re-used.

[Huskrrrr]

ET phone home.