See footage of the Orion Spacecraft a little over an hour before its "outbound powered flyby burn". The spacecraft was less than 4,500 miles away (7,242 km) and was traveling at 757 miles per hour (1218 kph).
Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: Binaural Alpha by Syntropy / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Credit: NASA / edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
Music: Binaural Alpha by Syntropy / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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00:00now less than four thousand five hundred miles away from the moon continuing to grow closer
00:07ahead of the outbound powered flyby burn again we're looking for that burn in an hour and 25
00:11minutes from now 744 a.m. eastern time orion is traveling at 757 miles per hour this is a live
00:18view from the spacecraft itself it is from a camera mounted on one of the solar array wings
00:23we will lose communication with the spacecraft as it passes behind the moon
00:30that loss of communication will occur for approximately 34 minutes and again we're
00:40tracking that here that loss of communication will start at 7 26 a.m.
00:53you