NASA could not launch the SLS rocket this past weekend due to a hydrogen leak.
NASA and its partner organizations are on the leaflet of a whole new era of quad exploration . The James Webb Space Telescopeis returning the most detailed infrared images we ’ve ever had from a blank space scope , and it is make toward order spaceman on the lunar surface for the first fourth dimension in almost 50 years .
NASA scrubbed its launching for Artemis I on September 3 due to a H making water . A duo of try have now been made , but NASA announced it will not make another attempt to launch Artemis I and the Space Launch System ( SLS ) arugula during the current launching window .
" Over the next several days , " NASA drop a line in an proclamation , " team will establish access to the area of the leakage at Launch Pad 39B , and in parallel conduct a schedule judgement to supply extra data that will inform a decisiveness on whether to perform body of work to replace a seal of approval either at the launch pad , where it can be test under cryogenic condition , or inside the Vehicle Assembly Building . "
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Due to the in vogue invalidate launching , NASA will have to wait until the next likely launch windowpane to make another try . " Because of the complex orbital machinist involved in launching to the lunation , NASA would have had to set up Artemis I by Tuesday , September 6 , " it state . accord to NASA’smission availability list , the next window are from September 19 to October 4 or from October 17 to 31.Live Science reportsthat the most likely fourth dimension for the next launch is mid - October due to the complexities of finding the reservoir of the leak . Though , it ’s possible that the launch could happenduring the other windowpane in late September to early October , fit in to other reports .
Theupdates from NASAhave not given an exact escort for the next launch attempt . This launch is an important part of theArtemis missionsthat will eventually see the first womanhood and mortal of color on the moon ’s surface in the not - too - distant futurity .
