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04-11-2026, 05:21 AM
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Not man-made, but a fireball captured south-west of Hawaii by the Gemini cloud cams. UKIRT is in the foreground:
Noirlab link:
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw26...cache=true&lang=en
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04-11-2026, 07:45 AM
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(04-10-2026, 09:07 PM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: Artemis II will pass near Hawaii today on reentry, but well to the south of the islands at 1:53 PM HST. It shouldn’t be visible from here. Hopefully all goes well during the final leg of their (so far) successful mission.
https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceflight/com...oundtrack/
I watched it live today. It's over 50 years late, but it all worked out fine. Artemis III, the next mission, will be in Earth orbit, so possibly visible from Hawaii - we won't know until it launches. I believe that the mission will test docking with the moon lander. If that goes well, then Artemis IV will be the mission that lands astronauts on the moon.