A small blip crosses the lower right quadrant of the live stream, after coming slowly into view in about the middle of the screen.
Over the next approx 50s, the object transits the lower right quadrant and exits off screen.
It appears to vary in intensity occasionally, but no shape is discernable.
If you go to the live stream you can still find this timestamp (see: Mission Elapsed Time in upper left of video) and you should see the object.
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
No idea what would be transiting the craft's path in such a way out there.
Anyone know?
What: White dot, growing from invisible to well visible (no shape discernable though), with seemingly varying light intensity, which makes it look like the object is "skipping into view" while approaching, and sometimes might show as a kind of trail (not sure if video artefact?)
Location: in space, in view of Artemis II live stream camera
Date: 2026-04-04, Mission Elapsed Time shortly after 02D18H38M
Duration: approx 50 seconds in total (I didn't time it very precisely, the figure is ballpark)
EDIT: An announcer lady also just mentioned that a short while back (not sure exactly when in relation to this incident), the crew had asked for one communications line to be privatized, indicating there were some private communications between the crew and NASA.
by LovelyDayHere
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cant it be a star?
The video is so strongly glared that I think it’s a lens flare that’s moving because the camera position relative to the spaceship is also constantly changing.