Nasa’s initial attempt ended with a cooling problem with one the rocket’s main-stage engines. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US space agency Nasa aims to make a second attempt on Saturday to launch its new Space Launch System moon rocket, five days after a pair ofPlans call for the 98m-tall SLS rocket to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending its Orion capsule on an uncrewed, six-week test flight around the moon and back to Earth.
The long-awaited launch would kick off Nasa's moon-to-Mars Artemis programme, successor to the Apollo moon project of the 1960s and 1970s. The first voyage of the SLS-Orion, a mission dubbed Artemis I, aims to put the 2.6 million-kilogram vehicle through its paces in a rigorous demonstration flight pushing its design limits, before Nasa deems it reliable enough to carry astronauts.
Nasa's initial Artemis I launch attempt on Monday ended with a cooling problem with one the rocket's main-stage engines, forcing a halt to the countdown and a postponement. At a news briefing on Tuesday, Nasa officials said they hoped to have those issues resolved in time for a launch retry on Saturday.
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