Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall receives 1st Artemis II signal
Big news from space tech! Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall, United Kingdom, just picked up its very first signal from NASA's Artemis II mission.
This happened early on April 2 as part of a test to see if Goonhilly can handle the data NASA needs.
The Orion spacecraft itself launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1.
Goonhilly debuts on crewed lunar mission
This is actually Goonhilly's debut with a crewed lunar mission, after helping out with about 20 other robotic ones.
If their data checks out against NASA's own results, Goonhilly could become a key player in upcoming missions to get humans back on the Moon.
As Matthew Cosby, their chief technology officer, put it: It's like going back to school, we're in an exam at the moment to show how capable the team is with all the procedures and how good the technology is that we've built in Cornwall.