Astronauts on the Artemis II mission to orbit the moon are preparing for perhaps the most exciting phase of their journey.

An Atlas V will launch 29 satellites — collectively the heaviest load the rocket has ever lofted — on Sunday morning (March 29), and you can watch it live.

SpaceX has confirmed an orbital anomaly involving a Starlink satellite that fragmented into dozens of pieces, raising fresh concerns about space debris even as the company maintains that the event poses no threat to major upcoming missions like Artemis II. The incident marks the second fragment creation event for the constellation in recent months.

Track the progress of the Artemis II mission with the latest updates and news from the historic mission to the moon's orbit.

Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch's mission is partly intended to pave the way for a future lunar landing in the coming years.

NASA has created the Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW), where people can track the Orion spacecraft in real time. Click here to see where the spacecraft and the Artemis II astronauts are. As of 9:45 a.m., Orion was nearly 43,000 miles from Earth and 226,000 miles from the moon. The spacecraft was traveling at 2,100 mph.

Track the progress of the Artemis II mission with the latest updates and news from the historic mission to the moon's orbit.