{"id":150796,"date":"2022-11-22T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/orion-moonship-operating-in-near-flawless-fashion-mission-managers-say"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:25:11","slug":"orion-moonship-operating-in-near-flawless-fashion-mission-managers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/orion-moonship-operating-in-near-flawless-fashion-mission-managers-say","title":{"rendered":"Orion moonship operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orion-moonship-operating-in-near-flawless-fashion-mission-managers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-officials-on-orion-capsule-moon-flyby-course-change-artemis-watch-live-streaming-today-2022-11-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">low-altitude flyby<\/a> Monday, is operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers reported Monday, out-performing expectations on a flight to pave the way toward the first piloted mission in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of the huge Space Launch System rocket that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-launches-artemis-rocket-on-mission-to-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\">boosted the Orion capsule<\/a> on its way early Wednesday showed it performed almost exactly as expected, taking off atop 8.8 million pounds of thrust and producing a ground-shaking shock wave that literally blew the doors off launch pad elevators.<\/p>\n<p>The core stage\u2019s four upgraded space shuttle main engines and twin solid-fuel boosters propelled the 322-foot-tall rocket out of the atmosphere and into space almost exactly as planned. At main engine cutoff, the SLS was within 3 miles of its target altitude and within 5 mph of the predicted velocity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular low-altitude flyby Monday, is operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers reported Monday, out-performing expectations on a flight to pave the way toward the first piloted mission in 2024. An analysis of the huge Space Launch System rocket that boosted the Orion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}