ARTEMIS 2 ROCKET ROLLS OUT ONTO LAUNCH PAD

If all goes well, astronauts Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT; Victor Glover, KI5BKC, Jeremy Hansen, KF5LKU, and Christina Koch, could be poised for liftoff as soon as early February on the Artemis 2 test flight. Though the crew won't be touching down on the moon's surface, the test flight's 10-day journey will establish a path for an eventual longer human presence on the moon. In fact, it will be a springboard, in a manner of speaking, to send the first NASA astronauts to Mars. By the time the quartet splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, their journey will have taken them the farthest from Earth that any crewed mission has ventured.

This will be the first human spaceflight to the moon in more than 50 years.

Last year, the US space agency asked hams with the necessary capabilities to observe the Doppler shift on the spacecraft's S-band return link carrier signal. The spacecraft's S-band range is between 2200 and 2290 MHz. Volunteers will not be transmitting or uplinking signals.