{"id":375915,"date":"2026-04-05T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375915\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:07:10","slug":"artemis-iis-orion-spacecraft-imaged-5-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375915\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTEMIS II&#8217;s Orion spacecraft imaged &#8211; 5 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We succeeded \u00a0imaging the Orion \u201cIntegrity\u201d spacecraft, part of the ARTEMIS II mission, with the first astronauts flying to the Moon after more than 53 years.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ARTEMISII_ORION_5APR2026_MASI.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207107\" class=\"wp-image-207107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ARTEMISII_ORION_5APR2026_MASI.jpg\" alt=\"The ARTEMISS II's Orion &quot;Integrity&quot; spacecraft. 5 April 2026.\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-207107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ARTEMISS II\u2019s Orion \u201cIntegrity\u201d spacecraft. 5 April 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"465\">After several days of bad weather, we were finally able to capture the Orion \u201cIntegrity\u201d spacecraft of ARTEMIS II on its journey to the Moon, carrying the four astronauts who, for the first time in over half a century, are heading toward our natural satellite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"667\">Watching that bright point glide across the stars in the background, knowing that it carries four representatives of humanity, was one of the most powerful emotions we have experienced in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"911\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">At the time the image was taken, using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/the-celestron-360mm-schmidt-cassegrain-telescope-on-paramount-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the robotic telescopes<\/a> of The Virtual Telescope Project located in Manciano (GR), under the darkest skies in mainland Italy, the spacecraft was approximately 217,000 km from the center of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/starwords\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back to \u201cStar Words\u201d page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support The Virtual Telescope Project!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Support us! Please, donate and celebrate the ARTEMIS II mission with an EXCLUSIVE and STUNNING digital hi-res image of the largest Supermoon of 2025 to download and frame on your wall and many more pictures, specifically made for supporters like you!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualtelescope.eu\/donate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-205552 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Donatebutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"26\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We succeeded \u00a0imaging the Orion \u201cIntegrity\u201d spacecraft, part of the ARTEMIS II mission, with the first astronauts flying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[111460,85,180386,46,45060,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-375915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-artemis-ii","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-integrity","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-orion","13":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}