Spacecraft Recovery
11 December 2022: Artemis I
General Characteristics:
Keel laid: 2 August 2013
Launched: 12 February 2016
Commissioned: 14 December 2017 (without ceremony), 21 April 2018 (with ceremony)
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS
Propulsion system: 4 medium speed turbocharged marine diesels
Propellers: two
Length: 684 feet (208.5 meters)
Beam: 105 feet (32 meters)
Draft: 23 feet (7 meters)
Displacement: approx. 25,000 tons
Speed: 22 knots
Planes: 80-100 planes
Crew: approx. 444 as CVS: 33 officers and 411 enlisted
Armament: 1- MK 41 16 cell VLS, 2 MK 31 Mod 0 RAM Launchers, 2 MK 46 Mod 1 30mm machine guns, 2 MK 26 Mod 17 .59 cal machine guns
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