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  • 5 months ago
Watch incredible footage from a camera mounted on the Orion spacecraft's solar array as it approaches the Moon during the Artemis 1 mission. This time-lapse captures the view less than 4,500 miles from the lunar surface.
Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: Binaural Alpha by Syntropy / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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00:02now less than four thousand five hundred miles away from the moon continuing to grow closer
00:07ahead of the outbound powered flyby burn again we're looking for that burn in an hour and 25
00:11minutes from now 744 a.m. eastern time orion is traveling at 757 miles per hour this is a live
00:18view from the spacecraft itself it 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
00:34that loss of communication will occur for approximately 34 minutes and again we're
00:39tracking that here that loss of communication will start at 7 26 a.m.
00:56you

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