{"id":124817,"date":"2025-09-01T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124817\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:23:11","slug":"nasa-seeks-volunteers-to-track-artemis-ii-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124817\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Seeks Volunteers To Track Artemis II Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

As NASA\u2019s Artemis program trundles onwards at the blazing pace of a disused and very rusty crawler-transporter, the next mission on the list is gradually coming into focus. This will be the first crewed mission \u2014 a flyby of the Moon following in the footsteps of 1968\u2019s Apollo 8 mission. As part of this effort, NASA is looking for volunteers<\/a> who will passively track the Orion capsule and its crew of four as it makes its way around the Moon during its 10-day mission before returning to Earth. Details can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This follows on a similar initiative during the Artemis I mission, when participants passively tracked the radio signals from the capsule. For this upcoming mission NASA is looking for Doppler shift measurements on the Orion S-band (2200-2290 MHz) return link carrier signals, with the objective being to achieve and maintain a carrier lock.<\/p>\n

Currently penciled in for a highly tentative April 2026, the Artemis II<\/a> mission would fly on the same SLS Block 1 rocket configuration that launched the first mission, targeting a multi-trans-lunar injection (MTLI) profile to get to the Moon using a free return trajectory. The crew will check out the new life support system prior to starting the MTLI burns.<\/p>\n

Because Artemis II will be on a free return trajectory it will not be orbiting the Moon, unlike Apollo 8\u2019s crew who made ten lunar orbits. Incidentally, Apollo 8\u2019s crew included James Lovell<\/a>, who\u2019d go on to fly the world-famous Apollo 13 mission. Hopefully the Artemis astronauts will be spared that level of in-space excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As NASA\u2019s Artemis program trundles onwards at the blazing pace of a disused and very rusty crawler-transporter, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-124817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}