December 11, 2022

The NASA's Orion spacecraft splashing down

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A little while ago, NASA’s Orion spacecraft completed its Artemis I mission by splashing down off the coast of the Baja California Peninsula, near Guadalupe Island. It blasted off on November 16 on the new SLS (Space Launch System), also NASA’s. Various ships were in the area to recover the Orion and every piece of hardware that can be recovered, such as the parachutes of the landing system, in order to collect as much data as possible on a critical phase such as the return to Earth.

The Hakuto-R Moon lander and the Lunar Flashlight nanosatellite blasting off atop a Falcon 9 rocket (Image SpaceX)

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A little while ago, ispace’s Hakuto-R Moon lander and NASA’s CubeSat-class nanosatellite Lunar Flashlight blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. After about 46 minutes, Hakuto-R successfully separated from the rocket’s last stage, and about 7 minutes later, Lunar Flashlight separated as well. Hakuto-R also carries two small rovers built by the United Arab Emirates and Japan. The route of what is called Hakuto-R Mission 1 will take about five months to get the lander to the Moon, where it will attempt a landing while the nanosatellite Lunar Flashlight will enter lunar orbit in about four months in search of water ice on its surface.