NASA is working toward three placeholder launch dates for Artemis 1: 2022-08-29, 2022-09-02, and 2022-09-05.
NASA reserved target launch dates of 2022-08-29, 2022-09-02, and 2022-09-05 for the Artemis 1 mission.
Blue Canyon Technologies is providing additional spacecraft buses and components for missions including TROPICS, Starling, Artemis-1, and CIRCE.
The SLS-powered Artemis 1 mission will carry an uncrewed Orion spacecraft that will orbit the moon and deploy 10 CubeSats as secondary missions.
NASA has published launch windows for Artemis 1 of 2022-07-26 through 2022-08-10 excluding 2022-08-01, 2, and 6, and 2022-08-23 through 2022-09-06 excluding 2022-08-30, 31, and 2022-09-01.
NASA hopes to launch the Artemis 1 mission in August 2025.
NASA’s updated schedule sets a following Artemis 1 launch window from 2022-08-23 through 2022-09-06 with no launches possible on 2022-08-30 through 2022-09-01.
The Artemis 1 launch would need to work around the Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche asteroid mission, which has a short launch window that opens at the beginning of August 2024.
Artemis 1 has launch windows of 2022-06-06 to 16, 2022-06-29 to 2022-07-17, and 2022-07-26 to 2022-08-09.
The SLS wet dress rehearsal will fill the rocket with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant and take the countdown to just under T-10 seconds to test fueling and countdown procedures ahead of the Artemis 1 launch this summer.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver the LunIR satellite for NASA in 2022 to support surface characterization, remote sensing, and site selection observations of the Moon and to launch on the Artemis I mission.
If the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal occurs as planned, the earliest Ax-1 could launch is 2022-04-04 at 12:50 p.m. Eastern.
NASA plans to conduct a wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis 1 Space Launch System from Launch Complex 39B on 2022-04-03.
Launch teams at one point planned a two-day separation between the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal and the Ax-1 launch but worked to shorten that separation to one day.
The first Space Launch System rocket rolled out to its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center on 2022-03-17 for a countdown dress rehearsal ahead of the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket rolled out to the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center on 2022-03-17 for a countdown rehearsal ahead of the Artemis 1 uncrewed lunar flyby mission.
The only major non-U.S. component of the Artemis 1 vehicle is the Orion service module provided by the European Space Agency.
Rocket Lab planned to deliver CAPSTONE in spring and intended to race Artemis 1 to the pad this spring.
NASA plans to complete a wet dress rehearsal on the pad before setting a launch date for Artemis 1.
Zohar will wear an Israeli spacesuit developed by Israeli company StemRad during the Artemis 1 flight.