Countdown Begins For SLS As Capstone Reaches Lunar Orbit

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Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—A cubesat dispatched to scout the orbit where NASA plans to assemble its Gateway lunar outpost reached its destination on Nov. 13 as the agency prepared to start the countdown for the Space Launch System (SLS)-Orion flight test. Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center were poised...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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