NASA To Outfit Orion With Starlink For Artemis III

Credit: SpaceX/NASA Caption: Artist’s rendering of a Starship spacecraft docked with NASA’s Orion capsule

Artist’s rendering of a Starship spacecraft docked with NASA’s Orion capsule.

Credit: SpaceX/NASA
As part of the upcoming Artemis III flight test, NASA plans to outfit its crewed Orion spacecraft with two mini lasers to connect with SpaceX’s Starlink network. The goal is to enable inflight 4K imagery and video from Orion, which is slated to spend about two weeks in low Earth orbit (LEO) in mid-...
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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