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Artemis-I : Mission to Moon

Artemis-I 

We need to know about why this program called Artemis? Artemis is a mythological Greek Goddess of Moon and twin sister of Apollo. It’s a fitting name for the program that will send the first woman and first person of color to the Moon by 2030.

This mission is currently unmanned but crewed spacecraft is under development and ready to carry people in nearly 2026. The spacecraft is named as ORION [ Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Network ].



Artemis-I will orbit the moon about 70000 Km above the moon’s surface. It was firstly launched on 29 August, 2022 but there was any technical issues rises due to this mission postponed and new date of launch are 2 September, 2022 or 5 September, 2022.

The Artemis program is a robotic and human moon exploration program led by the United States Space Agency, NASA & involving three other partner agencies : European Space Agency [ESA], Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [JAXA] and Canadian Space Agency [CSA]. Basically it is a type of test program to check all condition and working of spacecraft because it later used for astronaut mission and place astronauts on the lunar surface.


Scanned view of Artemis-I 

Structure of rocket:-

• Height:- Block 1 crew: 322 ft ; Block 2 cargo: 365 ft.

• Mass:- Block 1: 95 t ; Block 1B: 105 t ; Block 2: 130 t.

• Diameter:- 27.6 ft , core stage.


About the rocket:-

• The carrier rocket is the most powerful and super heavy-lift expandable vehicle.

• It is named as SLS ( Space Launch System ).

• It is first time use for Artemis-I Mission from Kennedy Space Center.


Why go to the Moon?

• Demonstrate new technologies, capabilities, and business approaches needed for future exploration including Mars.

• Study Moon to learn more about the origin and history.


What will we do there?

While Mars remains our horizon goal, we have set our sight first on exploring the surface of the Moon with human and robots explorers. At the Moon we will:

• Find and use water and other critical resources needed for long term exploration.

• Investigate the moon’s mysteries and learn more about our home planet.

• We learn how to live and operates mission on the another celestial body where astronauts are just there days from home.

• It make easy to go on Mars the some distance is reduced from Moon.


Future mission to Moon:-

• Artemis-II, is the first ever crewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft, targeted to launch on SLS rocket no later than May 2024.

• Artemis-III, currently targeted for earlier than 2027, will fly astronauts to the Moon. The mission may land humans on the lunar surface.


Steps take place in this mission:-

1) Launch by SLS ( Space Launch System ) from pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, USA

2) Mission control preform final checks in low Earth orbit

3) Translunar injection by Injection Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS)

4) Trip to the Moon

5) Flyby of Moon with gravity assist

6) Injection in Distance Retrograde Orbit (70,000 Km from the Moon, almost 500,000 Km from the Earth)

7) Departure from Distance Retrograde Orbit

8) Second flyby of Moon with gravity assist

9) Home trip to Earth

10) Separation of the crew module from the expandable element of Orion ( the European Service Module and the Crew Module Adaptor)

11) Re-entry of Crew Module and Splash down in the Pacific Ocean.


  -By Mratyunjay Saxena 


Location: Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

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