How to Watch NASA’s Artemis I Moon Rocket Launch Live

Fifty years later Completion of the Apollo missionsNASA is ready to return to the moon.

The agency’s ambitious, expensive and exciting Artemis program is scheduled to begin on Monday. Finally Artemis I could fly to the moon. We want to make sure you can be there live.

To be clear, this launch won’t have any astronauts on board – but a lot depends on its success, including the prospect of landing humans on the moon at some point in the near future. (It is currently scheduled for 2025).

Artemis I 32-story tangerine rocket commissioned for the big day will lift off from Earth and launch a pointed, relatively small, white spacecraft called the Orion into lunar orbit.

Orion is chock-full of things like Amazon Alexa, TV character Shaun the Sheep, mannequins, miniature satellites, and most importantly, tons of navigation and data collection devices. These special instruments inside Orion will track vital information about the spacecraft’s trajectory, safety, radiation absorbance (and much more) that will essentially chart the routes of future missions – missions With a human crew like Artemis II and Artemis III from 2025. In short, Artemis I is a crucial flight test and proof-of-principle mission.

A flawless launch next week could mark the beginning of NASA’s modern Apollo years. It’s going to be a tense day with a nerve-wracking countdown, but one shrouded in wonder and excitement. In other words, it’s going to be huge.

How to see the Artemis I launch

NASA will host a live broadcast of the Artemis I event on August 29 – the first in a list of three possible launch windows.

Timing the launch window opens itself at 5:33am PT/8:33am ET but stays open for two hours. Somewhere within that range, the agency’s mega-lunar rocket, which it calls “the world’s most powerful rocket,” will be heading for the stars.

Here is the start time of the window around the world. Prepare your snacks.

• US: 5:33 a.m. PT / 8:33 a.m. ET
• Brazil: 9:33 am (Federal District)
• UK: 1:33 p.m
• South Africa: 2:33 p.m
• Russia: 15:33 (Moscow)
• United Arab Emirates: 4:33 p.m
• India: 18:03
• China: 8:33 p.m
• Japan: 9:33 p.m
• Australia: 10:33 p.m. AEST

You can watch on the NASA app, NASA website or directly on NASA TV as seen below.

Also, be sure to check out CNET Highlights, our YouTube channel, for all the big moments.

The way to start Artemis I

NASA has already begun building anticipation for Artemis I’s journey into space. Daily briefings will be held through launch day on things like the role of industry in promoting human exploration, the management of lunar missions, how Artemis will lead to Mars excursions, and just general commentary from road to liftoff.

A full schedule of these meetings, all of which will be televised on NASA, can be found here.

Then, on Monday, NASA says it will begin broadcasting while light and early (dark and early?) fuel is loaded into the SLS 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET

After launch, around 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET — assuming all goes well — the agency intends to report on mission updates with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Artemis Mission Manager Mike Sarafin, and other key Artemis officials.

at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ETthe live stream will switch to coverage of Orion’s outgoing trajectory, hopefully followed by some stellar views of Earth captured by Orion-based cameras as the spacecraft heads toward our planet’s glowing companion.

Throughout the day, prepare for celebrity performances by Jack Black, Chris Evans and Keke Palmer, as well as performances of The Star-Spangled Banner by Josh Groban and Herbie Hancock and America the Beautiful by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yo-Yo Ma. the latter conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. What. A celebration.

Artemis I launch sequence

If you’re interested in the technical details, here’s the game plan for Artemis I. In a way, the launch is where it’s at the easiest Part. And I’m not exaggerating.

Team SLS goes first.

After the countdown, the SLS will ascend through Earth’s atmosphere. In two minutes, all of the solid propellant in the rocket’s boosters will be used up and those boosters will be jettisoned. After 8 minutes, all of the liquid fuel in the core stage is gone and that stage is jettisoned. Then Orion and the rocket’s upper stage will circle our planet all by themselves for about 18 minutes. Once that’s complete, it takes Orion about 12 minutes to deploy its solar arrays and end battery power.

At this point, as Sarafin puts it, the missile has done its job. Orion is on the way.

Team Orion steps up to the plate.

“We really don’t have time to catch our breath,” Rick LaBrode, Artemis I’s senior flight director, said during an Aug. 5 news conference. Essentially, Orion’s trajectory relies on a multitude of precise maneuvers that will guide it along the complex path outlined below.

Eventually, the craft will approach the lunar surface, get to within 60 miles above the ground and conduct a series of science experiments to test things like the lunar gravity and radiation hazards, and maybe even snap a few pictures like a recreation of Earthrise in 1968 The satellites inside Orion will be deployed en route, some physical data will be collected, and when all is said and done, the brave little spacecraft will return to our planet and land off the coast of San Diego.

Take Orion, unpack the data and Artemis I is complete. The whole thing should take six weeks.

If NASA manages to avoid any runaways along the way, it won’t be long before we’re scouring the internet for information on how to track the launch of Artemis II. And far into the future, we may be thinking of Monday as we sit back and watch a rocket tube headed not only for the moon but for Mars as well.

OK, I’m getting ahead of myself.

At the moment you can admire the Artemis I SLS rocket with Orion chilling on the launch pad. Here’s a constant live stream of it during his final moments on Earth.