Orion zoomed just 80 miles (130 kilometers) above the lunar surface ⬇️
Monday's successful burn will set up another crucial maneuver on Nov. 25: an engine firing designed to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit around the moon. The capsule will stay in the DRO — a stable path that will take it as far as 40,000 miles from the lunar surface — until Dec. 1, when another engine burn will send the capsule back toward Earth.
"This orbit is different than the orbit done during the Apollo program, in which the spacecraft and its crew orbited much closer to the lunar surface in a more circular fashion," Jones said during the broadcast."Distant retrograde orbit is important because it helps us to learn about how a spacecraft functions in a deep space environment."at tremendous speeds before ultimately splashing down softly in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
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