FlyingSpacefrog t1_ixsmb6r wrote
Reply to comment by Kichigai in Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit | Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space by chrisdh79
On the launch day live stream with Everyday Astronaut he said that the cameras on Orion’s solar panels are essentially just GoPros
Kichigai t1_ixsolqf wrote
Information linked to in this tweet would seem to corroborate this.
>“Each of Orion’s four solar array wings has a commercial off-the-shelf camera mounted at the tip that has been highly modified for use in space, providing a view of the spacecraft exterior,” said David Melendrez, imagery integration lead for the Orion Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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