Weather satellites were able to see the Artemis II launch and re-entry.

Space is cool, satellites are cool. It's all cool!!!

Did NASA Crash-Test Artemis‽ NASA showed me how they tested their Orion space capsule for atmospheric re-entry as part of the Artemis program, before one ever went to space! Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes This video has no adverts or sponsors, and my Patreon supporters helped cover the costs. I'll be posting some extra clips from this visit on my Patreon, which is completely free to join! https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Producer: Alex Bate @alexjrassic Thank you to everyone at NASA Ames Research Center for giving us this amazing opportunity! https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ Captions to follow in the next hour. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 📺 Video Footage 📺 Several Clips from Scott Manley's three videos of our day at Ames The Biggest Gun In The West! NASA's Hypervelocity Free Flight Test Range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3alzHF8TPM Why NASA Is Making Air Explode Using Electricity - The Electric Arc Shock Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEl6M8L8ULc NASA's Most Powerful Supercomputers & One Billion Pixel Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWQHZ4Fy6I Car Crash Testing from NHTSA (public domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_NHTSA_frontal_oblique_overlap_crash_test-2017_Honda_Ridgeline.ogv All other video footage is from NASA, including: Hypervelocity Free-Flight Aerodynamic Facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXLIliuFy0 Astronaut Matthew Dominick Flies Through The International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKsghZt8bLs Meet Artemis Team Member Matthew Dominick: https://youtu.be/3jQuovAcUm4?si=pF6enQvgEcUCIWas&t=107 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work 💷 All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn't cost you more. Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV.

Artemis II is about to return to Earth: Here's how NASA tested their Orion capsule for re-entry before even sending one to space!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvA21...

A report from the under sea medical officer who is inside the capsule with the crew

And this is why Reform UK should never be let anywhere near the space program:

A report from the under sea medical officer who is inside the capsule with the crew

THIS is why public science research should get more funding!

Wouldn't have line of sight problems if the earth was flat now

Wheeeeee

AAAAND SPLASHDOWN!

Main parachutes out on Artemis II

Main parachutes out on Artemis II

What a shot!

Artemis II with drogue parachutes out

YEEEAAAHHH

There's a gopro shot from Artemis 1 of the whole way down!
images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Comes Home (Official Broadcast) Around the Moon and back. Watch the Artemis II astronauts come home. NASA's Artemis II mission is splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at about 8:07 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 10 (0007 UTC April 11). Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew: • NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander • NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot • NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist • Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist The Artemis II astronauts launched on April 1 for a journey of ten days that took them farther than any humans have traveled from Earth. On their Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, they flew around the Moon, making observations which will help enhance scientific understanding. Artemis II is the first crewed flight test of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, testing the technologies we'll need for long-term lunar exploration and human missions to Mars. Read the latest Artemis II mission updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/ Learn more about the mission and why we're going: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/ Credit: NASA

They've just entered Earth's atmosphere! 12 minutes to splashdown!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDu...

An EQ Notch Filter, set to 1333MHz and its harmonic series

Absolutely no shade, live broadcast is hard at the best of times. But is anyone else thinking of this?

Did NASA Crash-Test Artemis‽ NASA showed me how they tested their Orion space capsule for atmospheric re-entry as part of the Artemis program, before one ever went to space! Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes This video has no adverts or sponsors, and my Patreon supporters helped cover the costs. I'll be posting some extra clips from this visit on my Patreon, which is completely free to join! https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Producer: Alex Bate @alexjrassic Thank you to everyone at NASA Ames Research Center for giving us this amazing opportunity! https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ Captions to follow in the next hour. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 📺 Video Footage 📺 Several Clips from Scott Manley's three videos of our day at Ames The Biggest Gun In The West! NASA's Hypervelocity Free Flight Test Range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3alzHF8TPM Why NASA Is Making Air Explode Using Electricity - The Electric Arc Shock Tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEl6M8L8ULc NASA's Most Powerful Supercomputers & One Billion Pixel Display https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDWQHZ4Fy6I Car Crash Testing from NHTSA (public domain) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_NHTSA_frontal_oblique_overlap_crash_test-2017_Honda_Ridgeline.ogv All other video footage is from NASA, including: Hypervelocity Free-Flight Aerodynamic Facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXLIliuFy0 Astronaut Matthew Dominick Flies Through The International Space Station: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FKsghZt8bLs Meet Artemis Team Member Matthew Dominick: https://youtu.be/3jQuovAcUm4?si=pF6enQvgEcUCIWas&t=107 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work 💷 All Amazon links are affiliate links which give me a small percentage of what you pay them as a tip for sending you their way. It doesn't cost you more. Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV.

Artemis II is about to return to Earth: Here's how NASA tested their Orion capsule for re-entry before even sending one to space!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvA21...

Spot the difference in reaction between these two clips:

I have not!

Sally Ride was the first American woman and first lesbian in space, first flying in 1983. Before she flew, NASA weren't really sure what a woman in space might need, so suggested providing her with 100 tampons. For a six day mission.

You have just given me the idea of a browser extension for crowdsourcing / highlighting
A) that an article writer is normally opinion-based or fact based.
B) passages that are factual and linked to a source. / vice versa

Or similar. If it doesn’t exist.
Feels like it’d need hella moderation tho.

‘Luggage’ is an everyday word I don’t really think about and then I realise it means ‘stuff I lug around’ and now I am very fond of the word luggage.

Main side gig has just cratered. No worries, no hard feelings, is wot it is.

So I am looking for side gigs to keep the wolf from the door. Ideally ongoing ones, I need security.

So. High-end English language technical writer/editor/documenter seeks gainful part time work.

Hahaha “He described the evidence as overwhelming and praised the team’s persistence.” Sounds like a surprisingly good-natured response

Artemis II: the furthest humans have ever been from Earth – Andrew Steele NASA’s Artemis II mission just set a new record: the furthest anyone has been from the surface of the Earth in the history of our species.

Of all the humans who have ever lived, only 28 have ventured beyond that tiny shell around our planet. Seeing it to scale makes the Moon missions even more extraordinary.

More details in my blog post: andrewsteele.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Artemis II just set a new record: the furthest any human has ever been from Earth.

But how far is that? I made a to-scale diagram of the Earth–Moon system to try to make sense of it. 🧵

Meet the people who fly spacecraft, without ever leaving Earth! The European Space Agency invited me to their mission control centre in Germany to find out what it takes to be a Satellite Operations Engineer working on their new Earth observation satellite, BIOMASS. Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYes 📋 Credits 📋 Series Producer/Director: Cambria Bailey-Jones Camera Operator / Editor: Jamie MacLeod | https://www.jamiemacleod.co.uk Sound Design: Dan Pugsley | https://www.cassinisound.com Captions: Jacob Salas | caption.plus Executive Producer: Guy Larsen A Matt Gray & Penny4 Production https://www.penny4.co.uk Special thanks to Elia, Jakob, Maya, Nicola, Lucy and Daniel at ESA and ESOC along with all of our contributors for this episode! @EuropeanSpaceAgency 📱 Follow Matt elsewhere on the internet 📱 All my social links are at https://mattg.co.uk https://chaos.social/@MattGrayYes (Mastodon) https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes https://instagram.com/MattGrayYes https://www.tiktok.com/@MattGrayYes https://twitch.tv/MattGrayYes 🌍 Extra Info 🌍 ESA: Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/Biomass_satellite_returns_striking_first_images_of_forests_and_more More about BIOMASS: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass People always ask about my t-shirts. I bought my white one from https://thespark.company. And the ESA one was a gift from ESA. 💷 Advert 💷 This video has no adverts or sponsors. Want to contribute towards my videos? Sign up to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/MattGrayYes Want to sponsor a video? More detail here: https://mattg.co.uk/contact/ 💸 Full Disclosure 💸 💷 My Patreon supporters' help meant I could work on this instead of other paid work Hi, I'm Matt Gray. You may know me from my work with Tom Scott, The Technical Difficulties, Matt Gray is Trying, or even as a broadcast engineer working in radio and TV. Previous video titles These EXPERTS show what it takes to FLY A SATELLITE at the European Space Agency What actually happens after launch‽ (at the European Space Agency!) What hapens in the European Space Agency's Mission Control?

As a bit of a space nerd, it's fun to see Artemis getting people excited about spaceflight again.

But what happens after you've launched a satellite, with no astronauts on board to drive it to its new home‽

I visited the European Space Agency to find out.
youtu.be/0i1Xz-xiYSU

Boo it’s cloudy. And the moons at such a low elevation I can’t see it. Time for bed.

View from a camera on the Orion capsule’s solar array, pointing towards the capsule, showing a crescent-earth setting behind a crescent-moon.

And earth has set behind the moon. From the perspective of the Orion capsule.

For the photography nerds, next time you're in an argument about the best camera for the job…
This image is from a Gopro Hero 4 (from 2014).
(and then heavily compressed to save space bandwidth).

Screenshot of nasa video feed. Orion capsule, The Moon, Earth. All in one view.

Wow. Live video from the far side of The Moon, as The Earth sets.

Orion capsule, The Moon, Earth. All in one view.

#Artemis

screenshot of lunar globe

For anyone playing along at home, I've found this lunar globe webpage.

Link to lunar globe, positioned vaguely to match Artemis' current view:
quickmap.lroc.im-ldi.com?camera=-2545...

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.