Payload
ARTEMIS 2 (INTEGRITY)
DecayedPayloadMEO
Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Launch System Block 1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Artemis II
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 8,887 km
- Periapsis
- 275 km
- Inclination
- 29.25°
- Orbital period
- 190.29 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2026-069A
- NORAD catalog №
- 68538
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 10, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 10, 2026
- Time in service
- 9 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed