Nasa Will Attempt To Launch Artemis Again On Saturday September 3

The Artemis 1 rocket consists of the six-person Orion capsule that sits atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) — dubbed the “moon mega rocket” — and was originally scheduled to launch its maiden voyage to moon and back on Monday (August 29). But engineers were unable to cool one of the rocket’s four RS-25 core engines to a safe temperature in time for launch. That issue, along with bad weather, forced NASA to cancel the launch just two minutes into the spacecraft’s two-hour launch window, NASA officials said at a press conference on Tuesday (August 30). The rocket’s new window for a second attempt will be Sept. 3, a day later than the earliest available window of Friday (Sept. 2), which NASA ruled out due to a high risk of adverse weather. “Launch time for a Saturday attempt will be 2:17 p.m. EDT,” Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis mission manager, said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s a two-hour window.” NASA officials added that if the rocket does not take off on Saturday, another launch could be scheduled as soon as 48 hours later. NASA sees this flight as the first of three missions that will provide a vital testing ground for the hardware, software and ground systems intended to one day carry the first humans to space. Mars and beyond. The upcoming uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight – part of the Artemis program named after the twin sister of the ancient Greek god Apollo – will be followed by Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 in 2024 and 2025/2026 respectively. Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a human crew of four, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and first person of color to land on the Moon’s south pole. Monday’s launch was scheduled for 8:33 a.m. ET, but the effort was plagued with problems from the start. Initial refueling efforts were delayed in the early hours of Monday when lightning, which had already struck the Artemis rocket pad two days earlier, threatened to strike the rocket again. Then shortly after 3 A.M. ET, the launch team announced that they were experiencing problems filling the rocket with supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel. These problems are reminiscent of those reported by the team during the wet dress rehearsal in April, where a faulty helium valve and a leak of liquid hydrogen prevented the rocket from preparing to the ignition point. Live Science was mentioned earlier. Another obstacle to Monday’s failed launch came when engineers found a suspected crack in the rocket’s thermal insulation, though it was later thought to be superficial. The issue that ultimately halted the launch arrived shortly after 6am. ET, when the team said the liquid hydrogen fuel cooled only three of the rocket’s four engines to sufficient temperatures before ignition. The problem engine, called engine three, appeared to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) hotter than the minus 420 F (minus 250 C) temperature required for launch. NASA will try to fix that problem for Saturday afternoon’s launch by carrying out the engine’s cooling process half an hour earlier – a trick that officials say was effective during a successful test run last year. And the engine may not have a cooling problem at all. NASA scientists have suggested that a faulty temperature sensor may have falsely reported the temperature inside the engine as much higher and much further from flight readiness than it actually was. “The way the sensor is behaving is not consistent with its physical state,” John Honeycutt, NASA’s program manager for the Artemis 1 mission, said at the press conference. The faulty sensor cannot be easily replaced, and replacing it would likely mean the rocket would have to be returned to NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building for a thorough investigation. As that would likely mean delaying the launch for several months, Honeycutt said his team was looking to create a solution plan that would allow flight engineers to make an “informed decision” about whether the rocket could lift off without measurements from the sensor. NASA is investing heavily in a successful mission for Artemis 1, which has come under scrutiny for a price that has skyrocketed. The program, which began in 2017, has already cost more than $40 billion to develop and is projected to cost American taxpayers $93 billion by the end of 2025, according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin’s office — of the space agency’s internal auditor. . “Given our estimate of $4.1 billion per launch of the SLS/Orion system for at least the first four Artemis missions, NASA must accelerate its efforts to identify ways to make its Artemis-related programs more affordable,” Martin said in March 1 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. “Otherwise, relying on such an expensive, single-use heavy-lift rocket system will, in our judgment, hinder, if not derail, NASA’s ability to sustain the long-term human goals of exploring the Moon and Mars.” Despite these issues, NASA officials insist the American public will find the cost of the rocket justifiable – which they say will usher in a new era of space exploration. “This is a brand new rocket. It’s not going to fly until it’s ready,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters Monday after the launch. “There are millions of components to this missile and its systems, and needless to say, the complexity is daunting when you bring them all into the focus of a countdown.” Nelson added that his own space shuttle launch, held in 1986 while he was a member of Congress, had four crashes before it finally took off. “If we had started in any of these scrubs, it wouldn’t have been a good day,” he said. NASA will be eager to launch Artemis before September 10, the peak date of this year’s hurricane season. So far, no named hurricanes have formed this year, but signs of increased storm activity in the Atlantic basin suggest that the period of unusual calm may be coming to an end. Originally published in Live Science.

title: “Nasa Will Attempt To Launch Artemis Again On Saturday September 3 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-25” author: “Bruce Fuhrman”

The Artemis 1 rocket consists of the six-person Orion capsule that sits atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) — dubbed the “moon mega rocket” — and was originally scheduled to launch its maiden voyage to moon and back on Monday (August 29). But engineers were unable to cool one of the rocket’s four RS-25 core engines to a safe temperature in time for launch. That issue, along with bad weather, forced NASA to cancel the launch just two minutes into the spacecraft’s two-hour launch window, NASA officials said at a press conference on Tuesday (August 30). The rocket’s new window for a second attempt will be Sept. 3, a day later than the earliest available window of Friday (Sept. 2), which NASA ruled out due to a high risk of adverse weather. “Launch time for a Saturday attempt will be 2:17 p.m. EDT,” Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis mission manager, said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s a two-hour window.” NASA officials added that if the rocket does not take off on Saturday, another launch could be scheduled as soon as 48 hours later. NASA sees this flight as the first of three missions that will provide a vital testing ground for the hardware, software and ground systems intended to one day carry the first humans to space. Mars and beyond. The upcoming uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight – part of the Artemis program named after the twin sister of the ancient Greek god Apollo – will be followed by Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 in 2024 and 2025/2026 respectively. Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a human crew of four, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and first person of color to land on the Moon’s south pole. Monday’s launch was scheduled for 8:33 a.m. ET, but the effort was plagued with problems from the start. Initial refueling efforts were delayed in the early hours of Monday when lightning, which had already struck the Artemis rocket pad two days earlier, threatened to strike the rocket again. Then shortly after 3 A.M. ET, the launch team announced that they were experiencing problems filling the rocket with supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel. These problems are reminiscent of those reported by the team during the wet dress rehearsal in April, where a faulty helium valve and a leak of liquid hydrogen prevented the rocket from preparing to the ignition point. Live Science was mentioned earlier. Another obstacle to Monday’s failed launch came when engineers found a suspected crack in the rocket’s thermal insulation, though it was later thought to be superficial. The issue that ultimately halted the launch arrived shortly after 6am. ET, when the team said the liquid hydrogen fuel cooled only three of the rocket’s four engines to sufficient temperatures before ignition. The problem engine, called engine three, appeared to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) hotter than the minus 420 F (minus 250 C) temperature required for launch. NASA will try to fix that problem for Saturday afternoon’s launch by carrying out the engine’s cooling process half an hour earlier – a trick that officials say was effective during a successful test run last year. And the engine may not have a cooling problem at all. NASA scientists have suggested that a faulty temperature sensor may have falsely reported the temperature inside the engine as much higher and much further from flight readiness than it actually was. “The way the sensor is behaving is not consistent with its physical state,” John Honeycutt, NASA’s program manager for the Artemis 1 mission, said at the press conference. The faulty sensor cannot be easily replaced, and replacing it would likely mean the rocket would have to be returned to NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building for a thorough investigation. As that would likely mean delaying the launch for several months, Honeycutt said his team was looking to create a solution plan that would allow flight engineers to make an “informed decision” about whether the rocket could lift off without measurements from the sensor. NASA is investing heavily in a successful mission for Artemis 1, which has come under scrutiny for a price that has skyrocketed. The program, which began in 2017, has already cost more than $40 billion to develop and is projected to cost American taxpayers $93 billion by the end of 2025, according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin’s office — of the space agency’s internal auditor. . “Given our estimate of $4.1 billion per launch of the SLS/Orion system for at least the first four Artemis missions, NASA must accelerate its efforts to identify ways to make its Artemis-related programs more affordable,” Martin said in March 1 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. “Otherwise, relying on such an expensive, single-use heavy-lift rocket system will, in our judgment, hinder, if not derail, NASA’s ability to sustain the long-term human goals of exploring the Moon and Mars.” Despite these issues, NASA officials insist the American public will find the cost of the rocket justifiable – which they say will usher in a new era of space exploration. “This is a brand new rocket. It’s not going to fly until it’s ready,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters Monday after the launch. “There are millions of components to this missile and its systems, and needless to say, the complexity is daunting when you bring them all into the focus of a countdown.” Nelson added that his own space shuttle launch, held in 1986 while he was a member of Congress, had four crashes before it finally took off. “If we had started in any of these scrubs, it wouldn’t have been a good day,” he said. NASA will be eager to launch Artemis before September 10, the peak date of this year’s hurricane season. So far, no named hurricanes have formed this year, but signs of increased storm activity in the Atlantic basin suggest that the period of unusual calm may be coming to an end. Originally published in Live Science.

title: “Nasa Will Attempt To Launch Artemis Again On Saturday September 3 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-21” author: “Donald Neuman”

The Artemis 1 rocket consists of the six-person Orion capsule that sits atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) — dubbed the “moon mega rocket” — and was originally scheduled to launch its maiden voyage to moon and back on Monday (August 29). But engineers were unable to cool one of the rocket’s four RS-25 core engines to a safe temperature in time for launch. That issue, along with bad weather, forced NASA to cancel the launch just two minutes into the spacecraft’s two-hour launch window, NASA officials said at a press conference on Tuesday (August 30). The rocket’s new window for a second attempt will be Sept. 3, a day later than the earliest available window of Friday (Sept. 2), which NASA ruled out due to a high risk of adverse weather. “Launch time for a Saturday attempt will be 2:17 p.m. EDT,” Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis mission manager, said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s a two-hour window.” NASA officials added that if the rocket does not take off on Saturday, another launch could be scheduled as soon as 48 hours later. NASA sees this flight as the first of three missions that will provide a vital testing ground for the hardware, software and ground systems intended to one day carry the first humans to space. Mars and beyond. The upcoming uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight – part of the Artemis program named after the twin sister of the ancient Greek god Apollo – will be followed by Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 in 2024 and 2025/2026 respectively. Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a human crew of four, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and first person of color to land on the Moon’s south pole. Monday’s launch was scheduled for 8:33 a.m. ET, but the effort was plagued with problems from the start. Initial refueling efforts were delayed in the early hours of Monday when lightning, which had already struck the Artemis rocket pad two days earlier, threatened to strike the rocket again. Then shortly after 3 A.M. ET, the launch team announced that they were experiencing problems filling the rocket with supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel. These problems are reminiscent of those reported by the team during the wet dress rehearsal in April, where a faulty helium valve and a leak of liquid hydrogen prevented the rocket from preparing to the ignition point. Live Science was mentioned earlier. Another obstacle to Monday’s failed launch came when engineers found a suspected crack in the rocket’s thermal insulation, though it was later thought to be superficial. The issue that ultimately halted the launch arrived shortly after 6am. ET, when the team said the liquid hydrogen fuel cooled only three of the rocket’s four engines to sufficient temperatures before ignition. The problem engine, called engine three, appeared to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) hotter than the minus 420 F (minus 250 C) temperature required for launch. NASA will try to fix that problem for Saturday afternoon’s launch by carrying out the engine’s cooling process half an hour earlier – a trick that officials say was effective during a successful test run last year. And the engine may not have a cooling problem at all. NASA scientists have suggested that a faulty temperature sensor may have falsely reported the temperature inside the engine as much higher and much further from flight readiness than it actually was. “The way the sensor is behaving is not consistent with its physical state,” John Honeycutt, NASA’s program manager for the Artemis 1 mission, said at the press conference. The faulty sensor cannot be easily replaced, and replacing it would likely mean the rocket would have to be returned to NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building for a thorough investigation. As that would likely mean delaying the launch for several months, Honeycutt said his team was looking to create a solution plan that would allow flight engineers to make an “informed decision” about whether the rocket could lift off without measurements from the sensor. NASA is investing heavily in a successful mission for Artemis 1, which has come under scrutiny for a price that has skyrocketed. The program, which began in 2017, has already cost more than $40 billion to develop and is projected to cost American taxpayers $93 billion by the end of 2025, according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin’s office — of the space agency’s internal auditor. . “Given our estimate of $4.1 billion per launch of the SLS/Orion system for at least the first four Artemis missions, NASA must accelerate its efforts to identify ways to make its Artemis-related programs more affordable,” Martin said in March 1 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. “Otherwise, relying on such an expensive, single-use heavy-lift rocket system will, in our judgment, hinder, if not derail, NASA’s ability to sustain the long-term human goals of exploring the Moon and Mars.” Despite these issues, NASA officials insist the American public will find the cost of the rocket justifiable – which they say will usher in a new era of space exploration. “This is a brand new rocket. It’s not going to fly until it’s ready,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters Monday after the launch. “There are millions of components to this missile and its systems, and needless to say, the complexity is daunting when you bring them all into the focus of a countdown.” Nelson added that his own space shuttle launch, held in 1986 while he was a member of Congress, had four crashes before it finally took off. “If we had started in any of these scrubs, it wouldn’t have been a good day,” he said. NASA will be eager to launch Artemis before September 10, the peak date of this year’s hurricane season. So far, no named hurricanes have formed this year, but signs of increased storm activity in the Atlantic basin suggest that the period of unusual calm may be coming to an end. Originally published in Live Science.

title: “Nasa Will Attempt To Launch Artemis Again On Saturday September 3 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-17” author: “Dorothy Johnson”

The Artemis 1 rocket consists of the six-person Orion capsule that sits atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) — dubbed the “moon mega rocket” — and was originally scheduled to launch its maiden voyage to moon and back on Monday (August 29). But engineers were unable to cool one of the rocket’s four RS-25 core engines to a safe temperature in time for launch. That issue, along with bad weather, forced NASA to cancel the launch just two minutes into the spacecraft’s two-hour launch window, NASA officials said at a press conference on Tuesday (August 30). The rocket’s new window for a second attempt will be Sept. 3, a day later than the earliest available window of Friday (Sept. 2), which NASA ruled out due to a high risk of adverse weather. “Launch time for a Saturday attempt will be 2:17 p.m. EDT,” Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis mission manager, said at a news conference Tuesday. “It’s a two-hour window.” NASA officials added that if the rocket does not take off on Saturday, another launch could be scheduled as soon as 48 hours later. NASA sees this flight as the first of three missions that will provide a vital testing ground for the hardware, software and ground systems intended to one day carry the first humans to space. Mars and beyond. The upcoming uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight – part of the Artemis program named after the twin sister of the ancient Greek god Apollo – will be followed by Artemis 2 and Artemis 3 in 2024 and 2025/2026 respectively. Artemis 2 will make the same journey as Artemis 1, but with a human crew of four, and Artemis 3 will send the first woman and first person of color to land on the Moon’s south pole. Monday’s launch was scheduled for 8:33 a.m. ET, but the effort was plagued with problems from the start. Initial refueling efforts were delayed in the early hours of Monday when lightning, which had already struck the Artemis rocket pad two days earlier, threatened to strike the rocket again. Then shortly after 3 A.M. ET, the launch team announced that they were experiencing problems filling the rocket with supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel. These problems are reminiscent of those reported by the team during the wet dress rehearsal in April, where a faulty helium valve and a leak of liquid hydrogen prevented the rocket from preparing to the ignition point. Live Science was mentioned earlier. Another obstacle to Monday’s failed launch came when engineers found a suspected crack in the rocket’s thermal insulation, though it was later thought to be superficial. The issue that ultimately halted the launch arrived shortly after 6am. ET, when the team said the liquid hydrogen fuel cooled only three of the rocket’s four engines to sufficient temperatures before ignition. The problem engine, called engine three, appeared to be about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) hotter than the minus 420 F (minus 250 C) temperature required for launch. NASA will try to fix that problem for Saturday afternoon’s launch by carrying out the engine’s cooling process half an hour earlier – a trick that officials say was effective during a successful test run last year. And the engine may not have a cooling problem at all. NASA scientists have suggested that a faulty temperature sensor may have falsely reported the temperature inside the engine as much higher and much further from flight readiness than it actually was. “The way the sensor is behaving is not consistent with its physical state,” John Honeycutt, NASA’s program manager for the Artemis 1 mission, said at the press conference. The faulty sensor cannot be easily replaced, and replacing it would likely mean the rocket would have to be returned to NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building for a thorough investigation. As that would likely mean delaying the launch for several months, Honeycutt said his team was looking to create a solution plan that would allow flight engineers to make an “informed decision” about whether the rocket could lift off without measurements from the sensor. NASA is investing heavily in a successful mission for Artemis 1, which has come under scrutiny for a price that has skyrocketed. The program, which began in 2017, has already cost more than $40 billion to develop and is projected to cost American taxpayers $93 billion by the end of 2025, according to NASA Inspector General Paul Martin’s office — of the space agency’s internal auditor. . “Given our estimate of $4.1 billion per launch of the SLS/Orion system for at least the first four Artemis missions, NASA must accelerate its efforts to identify ways to make its Artemis-related programs more affordable,” Martin said in March 1 testimony before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. “Otherwise, relying on such an expensive, single-use heavy-lift rocket system will, in our judgment, hinder, if not derail, NASA’s ability to sustain the long-term human goals of exploring the Moon and Mars.” Despite these issues, NASA officials insist the American public will find the cost of the rocket justifiable – which they say will usher in a new era of space exploration. “This is a brand new rocket. It’s not going to fly until it’s ready,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters Monday after the launch. “There are millions of components to this missile and its systems, and needless to say, the complexity is daunting when you bring them all into the focus of a countdown.” Nelson added that his own space shuttle launch, held in 1986 while he was a member of Congress, had four crashes before it finally took off. “If we had started in any of these scrubs, it wouldn’t have been a good day,” he said. NASA will be eager to launch Artemis before September 10, the peak date of this year’s hurricane season. So far, no named hurricanes have formed this year, but signs of increased storm activity in the Atlantic basin suggest that the period of unusual calm may be coming to an end. Originally published in Live Science.