{"id":1700,"date":"2026-04-02T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/redwire-to-supply-optical-imaging-and-sun-sensor-systems-for-nasas-artemis-ii-orion-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:56:37","slug":"redwire-to-supply-optical-imaging-and-sun-sensor-systems-for-nasas-artemis-ii-orion-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/redwire-to-supply-optical-imaging-and-sun-sensor-systems-for-nasas-artemis-ii-orion-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwire to Supply Optical Imaging and Sun Sensor Systems for NASA\u2019s Artemis II Orion Mission"},"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\/cover24264_639107086534525676.webp\" width=\"712\" height=\"378\" alt=\"Redwire to Supply Optical Imaging and Sun Sensor Systems for NASA\u2019s Artemis II Orion Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover24264_639107086534525676.webp\" style=\"opacity: 0.797061;\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/cover24264_639107086534525676.webp\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"378\"><\/p>\n<p>Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, announced that its advanced optical imaging and sun sensor technology will launch on board the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission for the Artemis program. Through contracts with Lockheed Martin, NASA\u2019s prime contractor for Orion, Redwire is responsible for the production and testing of the Orion Camera System for Artemis missions I-V.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may have heard the phrase, \u2018the camera is the mission,\u2019 which certainly still resonates. I am so proud that Redwire is providing its trusted and flight-proven imaging and navigation technology for Artemis II, which will play a vital role in this historic endeavor,\u201d <strong>said Mike Gold, President of Redwire Space.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cWe can\u2019t all be astronauts, but through the amazing imagery that our cameras will capture, the whole world can be a part of the extraordinary journey of discovery that is Artemis II.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: How AI-Driven Imagery Technology is Revolutionizing Satellite Network Operations?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>The camera system for Artemis II comprises 11 internal and external inspection and navigation cameras, including wireless cameras positioned on each of Orion\u2019s four solar arrays to allow in-flight inspection of the entire spacecraft. The system\u2019s Optical Navigation Camera provides high-resolution imagery to the spacecraft&#8217;s machine vision algorithm to determine Orion\u2019s position and velocity relative to Earth. Other cameras will record 4k video and 12MP images and livestream both the inside and outside of the vehicle, including key mission events such as separation, jettison, deployment, and crew demonstrations. The Redwire cameras on board Artemis I successfully captured imagery and video, including livestream views from the solar array wing cameras that were made available to the public throughout the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Redwire is also providing four redundant Coarse Sun Sensor (CSS) assemblies for Orion\u2019s European Service Module (ESM) through a contract with Airbus. The CSS is part of Orion\u2019s solar power generation system and will provide important data to the Solar Array Drive Electronics to adjust the ESM\u2019s solar panels. The CSS was part of and performed successfully on Artemis I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, announced that its advanced optical imaging and sun sensor technology will launch on board the Orion spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission for the Artemis program. Through contracts with Lockheed Martin, NASA\u2019s prime contractor for Orion, Redwire is [&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":[25,20],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"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=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}