{"id":559101,"date":"2026-04-01T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559101\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:16:09","slug":"artemis-ii-nasa-mission-takes-off-heading-on-historic-trip-around-moon-watch-and-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559101\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II: Nasa mission takes off heading on historic trip around Moon- watch and follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key moments to look out forpublished at 23:46 BST<\/p>\n

23:46 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, reporting from the launch<\/p>\n

It’s now been ten minutes since launch – here’s some of the key moments to look out for for the rest of the flight:<\/p>\n

After about eight minutes the core runs dry and drops back towards Earth, while the upper stage of the rocket – the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) – takes over, lighting its engine to nudge the crew the rest of the way into orbit.<\/p>\n

With two engine burns, the ICPS places Orion into a high, stretched out orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n

At its furthest, the spacecraft will be about 46,000 miles away; at its nearest, roughly 115 miles up.<\/p>\n

That loop takes about a day. During this first day, Orion separates from the ICPS and carries out a docking practice manoeuvre, flying towards and around the spent stage as if it were a future Moon lander or small space station.<\/p>\n

All of this is rehearsal for what comes much later in Nasa\u2019s grand plans for a long term presence on the lunar surface, when Orion will have to hook up in space with lunar landers and an orbiting outpost near the Moon.<\/p>\n

Artemis II is the crew\u2019s chance to see how the capsule\u2019s autopilot and thrusters behave when they really lean on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key moments to look out forpublished at 23:46 BST 23:46 BST Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, reporting from the launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-559101","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\/559101","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=559101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}