Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft hits halfway point of epic moon mission
was nearly flawless, and Orion has continued to hit its marks in deep space, NASA officials said.
"The spacecraft is operating just tremendously well so far, and we're really happy with its performance overall across all the subsystem areas," Howard Hu, NASA's Orion program manager, said in a press briefing on Monday afternoon.
That's not to imply that the mission has gone perfectly. Early in the flight, Orion's navigating star trackers returned anomalous readings, which the team eventually traced to temporary"dazzling" by the capsule's propulsion system. And the teamon Nov. 23 due to a configuration issue with NASA's Deep Space Network of radio dishes.
Artemis 1 team members are still working their way through a few other possible issues, but NASA officials said there's no cause for concern. "None of the anomalies or 'funnies' that are out there are of consequence," Artemis mission manager Mike Sarafin said during Monday's briefing.
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