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  • 3 years ago
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

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00:00 Now less than 4,500 miles away from the moon, continuing to grow closer ahead of the outbound
00:07 powered flyby burn.
00:08 Again, we're looking for that burn in an hour and 25 minutes from now, 744 AM Eastern time.
00:14 Orion is traveling at 757 miles per hour.
00:17 This is a live view from the spacecraft itself.
00:20 It is from a camera mounted on one of the solar array wings.
00:26 We will lose communication with the spacecraft as it passes behind the moon.
00:35 That loss of communication will occur for approximately 34 minutes.
00:38 And again, we're tracking that here.
00:42 That loss of communication will start at 726 AM.
01:05 (dramatic music)

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