Overview
- NASA lists launch opportunities beginning February 6 with additional chances in March and April, with the exact date contingent on technical readiness, weather and range availability.
- The mission will carry Argentina’s ATENEA 12U CubeSat from CONAE and national partners to validate deep‑space radiation measurements, component performance, GPS reception above the constellation and long‑range communications.
- Argentina’s official claim of a 72,000 km record distance is inconsistent with known Earth–Moon distances and remains unclarified by authorities or NASA.
- SLS and Orion are moving into place at Kennedy Space Center, with rollout and pad integration beginning on Saturday ahead of wet dress rehearsal and flight‑readiness reviews.
- Four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—will fly a roughly 10‑day free‑return trajectory around the Moon without a landing to validate life‑support, navigation and communications systems.