After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, the crew’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday.
The four Artemis II astronauts are back safely on Earth after flying around the moon on NASA’s first lunar mission in more than 50 years.
After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego in their Orion capsule at 8:07 p.m. ET.
It was a picture-perfect splashdown under three huge parachutes, with the capsule landing upright and bobbing in the water as recovery teams raced to the scene.
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Motherfucking Science!
Probably among the most impressive of which being the long-range optical data link (O2O), capable of a whopping 260Mbps.
While that doesn’t sound like much, it’s still 100x the speed we’d get from prior radio technology. Having 2.5+ seconds of round-trip latency really puts a damper on things…at least until we can get past that pesky speed of light thing.
Yeah it’s a real bummer. The ping to Mars is atrocious.
Just because NASA is too stingy to fit it with an ansible.
Can you blame them? Have you seen how much RedHat charges for Tower???