{"id":1685,"date":"2026-04-06T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-technologies-drives-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:46:34","slug":"l3harris-technologies-drives-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-technologies-drives-first-crewed-moon-mission-in-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris Technologies Drives First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1775457873082_639110546775932125.webp\" width=\"712\" height=\"381\" alt=\"L3Harris Technologies Drives First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1775457873082_639110546775932125.webp\" style=\"opacity: 1.54212e-05;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1775457873082_639110546775932125.webp\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"381\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>L3Harris Technologies<\/strong> has successfully powered the historic launch of the Artemis II mission, providing propulsion and avionics for the first crewed journey toward the moon in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cArtemis II marks a new era in human space exploration with the first crewed flight of NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and <\/em><em>Orion spacecraft<\/em><em>,\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>said <strong><\/strong><strong>Christopher Kubasik<\/strong><strong>, Chairman and CEO, L3Harris<\/strong>.<em>&nbsp;\u201cWe congratulate <\/em><em>NASA<\/em><em> and all our teammates on achieving liftoff, and we remain focused on supporting the Artemis II mission through its successful completion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: Inside L3Harris: The Crucial Countdown Before Artemis II Crewed Mission<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>L3Harris is supporting the Artemis II mission with more than 100 separate elements, including RS-25 engines for the Space Launch System core stage, the RL10 engine for the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage and the Orion Main engine for the translunar injection burn. L3Harris also supplied in-space thrusters for course corrections, 40 advanced avionics systems for precision control and monitoring of the launch vehicle and the Orion audio system for continuous astronaut communications.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-day mission around the moon will further demonstrate L3Harris capabilities in support of the Artemis campaign and NASA\u2019s vision of a sustained human presence on the moon and, ultimately, Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L3Harris Technologies has successfully powered the historic launch of the Artemis II mission, providing propulsion and avionics for the first crewed journey toward the moon in more than 50 years. \u201cArtemis II marks a new era in human space exploration with the first crewed flight of NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft,\u201d&nbsp;said Christopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,36],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-thrusters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}