By Chris Skeldon A new silent image from NASA captured two spacecraft at twilight, one in orbit and one on Earth, while the agency tested its new Artemis 1 lunar rocket.
The image, taken by photographer Joel Kosky, shows the agency’s Artemis 1 lunar rocket – the first space launch system Booster – As at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 8. International Space Stationwhich orbits about 418 km above the Earth.
Kowsky took the photo using a 30-second exposure and a Nikon D6 camera, according to aa Description of NASA image. The SLS rocket is hard to distinguish in the photo because it is partially obscured by the exposed spotlights of the launch pad, but the stunning aurora colors ranging from dark orange to black at night more than make up for it.
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NASA launched the SLS rocket to the launch pad in March for a countdown and refueling test known as the “wet experiment” ahead of schedule. Artemis 1 task for the moon Still this year. Testing started on April 1, but it didn’t go well.
NASA has Tried refueling the missile three separate times– Only to cancel each attempt due to technical problems. The cause of the last delay was a malfunction of the valve in the Artemis 1 stack launch tower.
Artemis 1 mission is an unmanned test flight that will launch an aircraft Space Orion Full of experiences and models about the moon. If the flight goes well, NASA will launch the first astronauts on an SLS rocket in 2024 on the Artemis 2 mission, which will also fly around the moon. NASA said the next mission, Artemis 3, will take astronauts to land near the moon’s south pole in 2025 or 2026.
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