NASA COVERAGE OF ORION’S POWERED FLYBY OF MOON, Nov 21, 2022, virtual, 5:15 am ET

Update, November 20, 11:00 pm ET: NASA just updated its schedule for live coverage of the Outbound Powered Flyby. It will begin at 5:15 am ET instead of 7:15 am ET. The burn itself is still at 7:44 am ET.

Original Entry: NASA TV will provide live coverage of Orion’s powered flyby on the Moon as part of the Artemis I mission on November 21, 2022 beginning at 7:15 am ET.

Orion will fire its engines at 7:44 am ET and make it closest approach to the Moon (80 statute miles, or 128 kilometers) at 7:57 am ET.

Orion will be behind the Moon when the burn occurs, emerging at 7:59 am ET.

NASA will cover the flyby live on NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app starting at 7:15 a.m. EST Monday, Nov. 21. The burn is planned for 7:44 a.m. Orion will lose communication with Earth as it passes behind the Moon from 7:25 a.m. through 7:59 a.m., making its closest approach of approximately 80 miles from the surface at 7:57 a.m. 

The flyby will put Orion on a path to enter a Distant Retrograde Orbit around the Moon after another engine burn on Friday. [Our understanding was that NASA TV would cover that, too, beginning at 4:30 pm ET, but it is not on the NASA TV schedule as of November 20.]