Recycled Spacecraft Are Moved Into Lunar Orbits

NASA’s twin Artemis spacecraft are both in elliptical lunar orbits after two years of complex maneuvers designed to recycle them from their original roles as Earth-orbiting probes studying geomagnetic storms. In their new orbits, which will bring them within 60 mi. of the Moon’s surface, the two...

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