Orion capsule's solar arrays captured striking

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Only a handful of minor technical issues have cropped up since the November 16 launch, including now-understood "funnies" with the capsule's star tracker navigation system, erratic coolant flow in one thermal control system loop due to a gas bubble and a radiation-induced flight computer reset.

A camera on one of the Orion capsule's solar arrays captured views of the moon and planet Earth on Monday as the spacecraft sailed nearly 43,000 miles above the moon's far side.
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A camera on one of the views of the moon eclipsing planet Earth on Monday as the spacecraft sailed nearly 43,000 miles above the moon's far side.
NASA
The computer automatically rebooted itself as programmed buy phone number list and is working normally. Mission Manager Mike Sarafin called the glitch "a gift handed to us from the flight environment," because it confirmed the system's ability to recover from a radiation hit "as it was designed."

Only one "anomaly team" is still on the job as engineers troubleshoot a minor glitch with a power distribution system component. But Sarafin said the issue is not a serious problem "because we have appropriate levels of redundancy. ... We just don't quite understand what the hardware is telling us."

Monday afternoon, the Orion capsule reached a point in its "distant retrograde orbit" around the moon some 268,562 miles from Earth — nearly 43,000 miles above the lunar surface — setting a new distance record for a human-rated spacecraft. The previous record of 248,654 miles, set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, was surpassed Saturday.

A few hours earlier Monday, a camera mounted on one of Orion's solar arrays captured a view of the blue-and-white Earth slowly passing behind the moon in a deep space eclipse, disappearing from view in a stunning celestial display.