{"id":18867,"date":"2022-11-25T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/orion-snaps-selfie-with-moon-ahead-of-entering-orbit-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:58:52","slug":"orion-snaps-selfie-with-moon-ahead-of-entering-orbit-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/orion-snaps-selfie-with-moon-ahead-of-entering-orbit-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Orion snaps ‘selfie’ with Moon ahead of entering orbit \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine days into its flight to the Moon and beyond, NASA’s uncrewed Orion capsule is due to fire its engines for an insertion burn that will place the craft into a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) about 50,000km from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

DRO provides a highly stable orbit requiring little fuel, allowing NASA to fully test Orion’s systems in a deep space environment far from Earth for an extended amount time.<\/p>\n

The orbit is so large that it will take Orion six days to complete half of a revolution, at which point the spacecraft will exit orbit for the journey back home.<\/p>\n

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