Artemis 1 Is In Orbit
Artemis 1
NASA
Keith’s note: According to NASA PAO: “Carrying an uncrewed Orion, SLS lifted off for its flight test debut at 1:47 a.m. EST Wednesday from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.” More
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Congrats to NASA and the launch time! Long time coming…
I have to say the NASA official broadcast was subpar…. Why such limited video from the vehicle in flight?
And the constant rapid switching of views with a giant Artemis logo shown in between… really disruptive and unpleasant to watch… finally it looks like that stopped.
Also, the computer graphics of the vehicle in orbit haven’t improved since the 60s?!
I know this is a test flight, but the Falcon Heavy test flight had great visuals.
SpaceX’s Starship test flight is up next, hope that’s a good one too… I’m beginning to cautiously believe I’ll actually see a second moon landing.
SpaceX does a better job on coverage than NASA is doing on Artemis.
Really missed having cool camera views like ULA and SpaceX have but if this is the only negative then great. All the rehearsals, dress or not, paid off, an awe inspiring launch and accomplishment. Thinking of all the meetings that were sat through …
TLI was the most emotional thing. When was the last time NASA had a TLI of this magnitude and import.
Speaking of TLIs, I clearly remember as a young boy watching Apollo 8 launch on B&W TV set with rabbit ears. Then it was mentioned “that was the TLI burn that has sent them out of earth orbit to the moon.” I felt everything on a global scale changed. So I figured this flight even though I need the sleep but stayed up to hear completion of TLI burn, didn’t have that same feeling. Overall, I have to acknowledge the many thousands that put in all sorts of detailed work, and all-nighters, felt good to see results instead of the hardware still on the pad.
Well with a tens of $billions budget, did you expect them to be able to afford the kind of cameras that the low cost provider uses? /s
I have to admit I was pretty shocked at the feed from the NASA streaming channel. No telemetry graphics at all, no on-vehicle video, nothing. For awhile we were treated to some sort of tracking camera with a 640×480 NTSC graphics overlay circa 1986, with the rocket a shaky white dot meandering about the screen. It’s not even like it would take much design work to do better – just look at a SpaceX launch and copy that. I had a similar complaint with JWST in that there were no cameras on-board to verify or troubleshoot any deployments. I got some very condescending answers about that, as if I hadn’t been in this industry for decades.
I have to agree on the subpar TV. Night launch did not do it much good. Once it left the pad all you could see were SRB flames and once the SRBs left, there was an apparently still, static picture of the remaining ascent. Very little worthwhile TV since. Also NASA keeps saying the most powerful rocket, but it doesnt carry as much as a Saturn V. Nelson keeps talking about new hi-tech, as the reason for delays, but there is little new or hi-tech. Looking forward to the Space X entry.