Overview
- NASA, which published its broadcast schedule Thursday, set a target no earlier than Wednesday, April 1, with launch opportunities through April 6 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Live coverage will run around the clock on NASA+ and YouTube in English and Spanish, with daily status briefings from Johnson Space Center during the flight.
- The crew of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will fly Orion on an SLS rocket to validate life-support and other systems in deep space.
- The flight plan calls for Orion to splash down in the Pacific on April 10, with recovery teams ready to retrieve the capsule and return the astronauts.
- Ground tracking will extend beyond NASA as Integrasys and Spain’s Universidade de Vigo and University of Seville monitor Orion’s S-band radio tone using Doppler shifts to confirm its position and course.