The single engine of the second stage is firing now, using its 24,750 pounds of thrust to push Orion higher above Earth. This burn will last 4 minutes and 42 seconds and place Orion on a path through the Van Allen radiation belts and then back to Earth’s atmosphere at high speed.
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I have an 8 year old son wondering where this video is coming from. Is it an actual video or is it computer-generated animation? Thanks for any information!
They’re showing what it would look like with an animated simulation.
One question: during the 2nd stage burn there was an animation on NASA live feed, showing on the upper left corner telemetry data which I thought was real data – at the end it showed an altitude of 3200 NM (nautical miles? which would be ~3600 miles) – wasn’t it the final altitude to be reached? Or was the data not real time telemetry, but also simulation?