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Artemis II Mission: Giant Radio Telescope Sees 4 Astronauts in Fuzzy Pixels
The Green Bank Telescope tracked Artemis II's mission Orion spacecraft within 0.2mm/s accuracy. The Silicon Review reports on the pixelated image capturing four astronauts over 213,000 miles away. The world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope tracked NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon for five days, producing a pixelated image that, while fuzzy, captured something extraordinary: four human beings aboard the Orion spacecraft more than 213,000 miles from Earth. "There are four people in those pixels," Will Armentrout, a scientist at the Green Bank Observatory, told colleagues while presenting the image. The observation came from the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) in West Virginia, a 485-foot-tall structure weighing 17 million pounds with a dish covering 2.3 acres the largest moving structure on land. Working in partnership with NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program, the GBT conducted five separate observations, each lasting six hours, tracking the Orion spacecraft named Integrity by the Artemis II crew at the moments it was farthest from Earth and deepest into its lunar trajectory. The precisio...
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