ARTEMIS II’s Orion spacecraft imaged – 5 April 2026
We succeeded imaging the Orion “Integrity” spacecraft, part of the ARTEMIS II mission, with the first astronauts flying to the Moon after more than 53 years.
The ARTEMISS II’s Orion “Integrity” spacecraft. 5 April 2026.
After several days of bad weather, we were finally able to capture the Orion “Integrity” spacecraft of ARTEMIS II on its journey to the Moon, carrying the four astronauts who, for the first time in over half a century, are heading toward our natural satellite.
Watching that bright point glide across the stars in the background, knowing that it carries four representatives of humanity, was one of the most powerful emotions we have experienced in recent years.
At the time the image was taken, using one of the robotic telescopes of The Virtual Telescope Project located in Manciano (GR), under the darkest skies in mainland Italy, the spacecraft was approximately 217,000 km from the center of the Earth.
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