Artemis II

Artemis II will send four astronauts in the first crewed Orion capsule in a lunar free return trajectory for a 10-day mission. The commander of the mission is Reid Weisman (NASA), the pilot Victor Glover (NASA), and the two mission specialists are Christina Koch (NASA) and Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space Agency, CSA). Christina Koch will become the first woman to venture beyond Low Earth Orbit, and Jeremy Hansen will become the first non-American to achieve the milestone. The Orion capsule used in this mission, CM-003, was named Integrity by the Artemis II astronauts. Because of the hydrogen boil-off due to the increased time spent in a LEO parking orbit compared to Artemis I, the mission will use a multi-translunar injection (MTLI), or multiple departure burns, to perform the translunar injection burn. The burn will be partially completed by the ICPS 2nd stage before being fully completed by the European Service Module (ESM) on the following orbit.

4 CubeSat missions were selected as secondary payloads on Artemis II. They will reside within the Orion Stage Adapter from which they will be deployed after Orion has separated. The selected cubesats are: - TACHELES from the German space agency DLR - ATENEA from Argentina’s space agency CONAE - K-RadCube from the Korea AeroSpace Administration - Space Weather CubeSat-1 from the Saudi Space Agency