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I don’t think the current position of Orion is accurate. It shows them about halfway to the moon, but they’re just leaving Earth orbit right now.


The NASA app is here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

It has "Distance From Earth" at 44,096 km (converted from miles...,) as opposed to 158,000 km. So yes, far off.


Hey, I've responded before, I need to update the visualization: Iam fetching space weather from NOAA SWPC.

Trajectory, distance, speed, and comms delay are computed from NASA's published Artemis II mission plan parameters, not pulled live from NASA telemetry.

Also, the current discrepancy is likely caused by the orbital phase and reference model being used.

Right now the tracker shows about 192,000 km, while NASA's AROW shows about 80,000 miles, which is roughly 129,000 km. So yes, that is off by around 60,000 km. Difference can happen because the spacecraft is in a elliptical orbit and different trackers may be using different assumptions, interpolation methods,... or reference points for the trajectory.




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