Global Volunteers to Track Artemis II Moon Mission

NASA selected 34 global volunteers—ranging from government agencies and academia to commercial partners and amateur-radio groups—to passively track the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II’s roughly 10-day mission around the Moon. Volunteers will submit data to NASA’s SCaN program to help assess tracking capabilities and build a resilient public-private ecosystem for future Moon and Mars exploration; no funds are exchanged. Artemis II will launch the SLS rocket with a four-person crew, continuing NASA’s plan to advance deep-space exploration.