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| Orion 17 & Altair 3 |
Mission insignia
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| Mission statistics |
| Mission name |
Orion 17 & Altair 3 |
| Command Module |
Orion 17 |
| Lunar Module |
Altair 3 |
| Launch pad |
Launch Pad 39B |
| Launch date |
December 2019 |
Lunar landing
December 2019 |
| Landing |
December 2019 or January 2020 |
| Mission duration |
~21 days |
| Orbital altitude |
~65 nautical miles (~105 km) in lunar orbit |
| Orbital inclination |
~0 to 30 degrees |
| Distance traveled |
TBD |
| Related missions |
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Orion 17 is the current name of a manned NASA lunar landing mission, the second Constellation lunar landing and the eighth human lunar landing by NASA. A landing site has not yet been chosen, but it is likely to be at either the lunar north or south pole, where NASA has decided to build a Lunar outpost, as announced on December 4, 2006.[1]
The mission is planned to last approximately twenty-one days. Orion 17 will be launched by an Ares I from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39B. It will dock in Low Earth Orbit with a package made of an Earth Departure Stage (EDS) and the third Altair. This package will have been launched a few weeks earlier by an Ares V. The space assembly will be injected towards the Moon by the EDS.
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