After lunar flyby, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is set to splash down on Sunday - Ars Technica
In making this "powered flyby burn" to move away from the Moon, Orion's service module performed its longest main engine firing to date, lasting 3 minutes and 27 seconds.After successful completion of the maneuver, NASA's mission management team gave the "go" to send recovery teams out into the Pacific Ocean, where Orion is due to splashdown on Sunday, during the middle of the day.
This completes a big test of the spacecraft and its propulsive service module, which was built by the European Space Agency.
Although a boilerplate version of Orion made a flight in 2014, it did so without a service module.
As part of this Artemis I mission, NASA is now three weeks into a 25.5-day test flight of the Orion spacecraft.So far, Orion's test flight has gone remarkably well.In an interview after the news briefing, Korth said she did not think the glitch would have an impact on the service module that will be used for the Artemis II mission.