NASA has set a brand new date for the following launch try of its Artemis 1 moon mission.
Artemis 1 could have a 69-minute launch window that opens at 12:07 a.m. EST (1707 GMT) on Nov. 14, throughout which it is going to try and ship the Orion crew capsule to lunar orbit, NASA stated (opens in new tab) in an replace at the moment (Oct. 12).
The uncrewed mission would be the first check flight of NASA’s new 322-foot-tall (98 meters) Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and the second-ever liftoff for Orion, which went to Earth orbit again in 2014.
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NASA has already made two makes an attempt to launch Artemis 1, in late August and early September, which had been scrubbed as a consequence of a rocket engine temperature issue and a fuel line leak , respectively.
Hurricane Ian then compelled the Artemis 1 stack to be rolled back into the Car Meeting Constructing at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle (KSC) in Florida, scuppering possibilities of a late September launch. The impacts of the storm additionally ruled out a launch alternative in October, main NASA to focus on a window between Nov. 12 and Nov. 27.
The excellent news is that inspections and analyses during the last week have confirmed that minimal work is required to organize the rocket and spacecraft to roll out as soon as once more to KSC’s Launch Pad 39B, NASA acknowledged.
NASA has additionally requested a pair of two-hour backup launch home windows, for Nov. 16 at 1:04 a.m. EST (0604 GMT) and Nov. 19 at 1:45 a.m., EST (0645 GMT).
A launch on Nov. 14 would end in a mission length of about 25.5 days, with an Orion splashdown within the Pacific Ocean occurring on Dec. 9 to wrap all the pieces up.
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