(At this point, any update is almost certainly going to be the announcement that the launch is scrubbed it’s getting harder and harder to see how there will be time to go today.) That might be an indication that an update is coming, or it might. Nasa’s main account has tweeted about the problems, alongside a message asking people to “stand by” and keep watch on its YouTube channel. Again, that update is likely to be the announcement that the launch is scrubbed – but there’s always hope. On Nasa’s live stream, viewers have just been told that engineers are updating the launch director about the latest news, and that there should be an update “shortly”. But it might also suggest that it has to be fixed by being rolled back to the assembly building – which would mean Nasa wouldn’t be able to use tomorrow’s backup window, and might have to wait until October or even longer. The first and most immediate is that a scrub sounds likely. The leak is coming from inside the engine compartment, which can’t be easily accessed, according to NBC’s Tom Costello. Leak could require major work, reporter says They only recommend that to Nasa’s leaders, who must make the final decision, but you can probably guess what that decision is going to be. Engineering team says ‘no go’ to today’s launchĮngineering teams have presented their belief that today’s launch is “no go” – it should be scrubbed. It did not say what those conversations were: it’s possible they relate not to whether the rocket will go today (that seems very unlikely) but what will happen to it after, and whether Nasa will try to launch tomorrow or give up and roll the rocket back to its assembly building. She still has some further conversations she wants to have about the rocket, Nasa said. She will not yet decide that today’s launch has been scrubbed. Launch director says decision has not yet been madeĬharlie Blackwell-Thompson, the launch director, has received the recommendation to scrub the launch but has not yet made a decision, according to Nasa’s live stream. This time, the Orion crew capsule is empty – but if this journey is successful, then a trip with humans on board is to come. If successful, the spacecraft will launch off Earth and around the Moon, before heading back down to our planet 42 days later. The space agency now hopes that those issues are fixed and that it will be able to launch the rocket in a new two-hour launch window that opens at 2.15pm local eastern time, or 7.15pm in the UK, on Saturday. The space agency will launch its Space Launch System rocket as part of the Artemis programme that one day hopes to put humans back onto the lunar surface.īut first it must contend with the technical problems that caused the initial launch, on Monday, to be postponed. Nasa is going to try and head back to the Moon – again. Nasa is to attempt Artemis 1 moon mission launch on Saturday (Eric Bordelon/Nasa)
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