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A Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia tracked NASA’s Artemis 2 spacecraft as it circled the Moon for five days, recording its position and velocity from more than 200,000 miles away with precision within about 0.2 millimeters per second of NASA projections, highlighting how radio astronomy enables ultra-precise, real-time space-tracking for future missions.
A distant, pixelated image of NASA's Artemis II Orion capsule Integrity was captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, about 213,000 miles from Earth during the Moon flyby. The radio-wave image shows the crewed spacecraft as tiny pixels, with NRAO noting it contains the four astronauts aboard—Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen—while researchers highlighted the feat of tracking the capsule from Earth with extreme precision and its place as a potential record for the farthest humans have traveled from Earth within NASA's Artemis program.