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NASA loses contact with Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft for 47 minutes
space.com ^
| Mike Wall
Posted on 11/23/2022 2:11:11 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: artemis1; contact; nasa; orion
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:11:11 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:12:22 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
Yeah, that happened with Jodie foster too when she was with NASA.
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:12:46 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: BenLurkin
Geezy—Is the Orion carrying ballots?
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:14:58 PM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:15:30 PM PST
by
cranked
To: BenLurkin
Houston, we have a [click!]
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:15:45 PM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: BenLurkin
Gidney & Cloyd don’t want any visitors.
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:16:53 PM PST
by
bobcat62
To: BenLurkin
Python, the duct tape that holds the internet together.
To: Arm_Bears
Is the Orion carrying ballots?
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No, its going to pick up several tons of ballots.
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:25:27 PM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:27:45 PM PST
by
pfflier
To: EEGator
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:55:48 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man. )
To: EEGator
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posted on
11/23/2022 2:59:24 PM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
To: BenLurkin
Gee, that was not an issue in the late 60’s.
To: ConservativeInPA
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posted on
11/23/2022 3:01:20 PM PST
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EEGator
To: BenLurkin
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.
To: gathersnomoss
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.
To: George from New England
NASA in the 60s and 70s employed smarter people.
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posted on
11/23/2022 3:08:17 PM PST
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moviefan8
( The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. - M in No Time To Die (2021)c)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
11/23/2022 3:29:17 PM PST
by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
To: BenLurkin
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11/23/2022 3:32:30 PM PST
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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