Following its historic launch this week, NASA is on its way to the moon. The uncrewed craft has fired its engines several times to adjust its trajectory and is on its way to perform a flyby of the moon next week.
Earth was captured by the spacecraft as it moved away from us and towards the moon.
The craft made its first and second course-correction burns on the same day. The burns adjusted the craft's trajectory as planned for its 25-day mission, traveling around the moon to test out the hardware ahead of planned launches to travel around and to the moon for Artemis missions II and III.
NASA officials said in a review of the spacecraft's progress that it was "exceeding performance expectations" The team used the onboard cameras to take pictures of the systems and modules of the spaceship and check for any damage caused by space debris as it traveled through space.
The craft uses a camera to take pictures of the stars around it so it can orient itself correctly. NASA said there are no operational changes after describing some "anomaly" data.
The extra satellites were used as extras to the mission. Half of the satellites have some degree ofittent issues and teams are still working on them. NASA said that the satellites are separate from the Artemis I mission and are high-risk.
NASA has a tool that you can use to follow along with the mission.
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