NASA's Artemis 1 mission set a new record when it reached its furthest distance from Earth (just
Today's event also marked the halfway pointThe 25.5-day Artemis 1 mission Orion is now in a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon, which has taken it beyond Lagrange Point 2 (the L₂ point of the Earth-Sun system), where the gravitational pull of the Earth and Moon balance each other.
According to NASA, as of 20:00 EST on November 28 (04:00 Moscow time on November 29) the spacecraft was at a distance of 432,000 km from the Earth and 69,420 km from the Moon and was moving at a speed of 2702 km/h).
Despite the problems, including temporaryloss of communications and mission delays, Artemis 1 performs better than expected. NASA's Ground Systems Research team and the US Navy are now preparing for the mission's splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, scheduled for December 11.
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